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John Barrell's Plenary and Keynote Presentations

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
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Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
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Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
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Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
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Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
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Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
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Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
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David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
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Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
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Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
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Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
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Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
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Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
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Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature

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Rehana Ahmed and Rachel Carroll (Teesside) sedmodern British Culture after 9/11 conference, Teesside University June 2014 27/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rehana Ahmed, Nadia Valman, and Sumita Mukherjee (KCL) sedmodern Whitechapel Encounters: Tracing Migrant Lives in the Pre-War East End conference, Teesside University 19 April 2015 19/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Warren Boutcher sedearly Roundtables on transnational literatures at the Renaissance Society of America 2014 (New York), 2015 (Berlin), 2016 (Boston) 01/01/2016 2014-16 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Atia, with Lindsey Moore (Lancaster) sedmodern Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures in English/ Translation: Critical Prisms for Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary University of London 05/12/2015 05/12/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival, Queen Mary University of London 13/11/2015-15/11/2015 13/11/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
David Colclough sedearly Reconsidering Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 23/03/2015-24/03/2015 23/03/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Place and Preaching, St Paul’s Cathedral, London 06/09/2013-07/09/2013 06/09/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
David Colclough sedearly Editing Donne, Lincoln College, Oxford 26/03/2011 26/03/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Representation of War, Eleventh Annual Dr Williams’s Centre Conference 16/05/2015 16/05/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Writing and Religion Research Network 07/12/2013 07/12/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Atlantic World 24/01/2014-25/01/2014 24/01/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Digital Approaches to Library History 30/05/2014-1/06/2014 01/06/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse Libraries in the Community 23/01/2015-24/01/2015 23/01/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Julia Boffey sedearly London Medieval Society 70th Anniversary Conference: London and the World, Queen Mary, University of London 01/05/2015-04/05/2015 01/05/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly Middle English Lyrics workshop: Form, Focus, Function, Queen Mary, University of London 21/02/2014 21/02/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey sedearly New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, Queen Mary, University of London 10/07/2015-15/07/2015 10/07/2015 Medieval and Early Modern
Julia Boffey and Rosamund Allen sedearly The First International Congress of the John Gower Society “1408-2008: The Age of Gower”, Queen Mary, University of London 12/07/2008-16/07/2008 12/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, Queen Mary University of London 08/09/2014-08/09/2014 08/09/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Alfred Hiatt sedearly The Third London Chaucer Conference, Institute for English Studies, Senate House 07/04/2011-08/04/2011 07/04/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin sedearly ‘Looking Before and After’: Cultural Exchange and the the Inheritance of Ideas, c.1200-1700, Christ Church College, Oxford 13/06/2009 13/06/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Tamara Atkin, Ruth Ahnert and Francis Leneghan sedearly Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation, Charterhouse Square, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2013-17/07/2013 15/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly News and the Shape of Europe Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 26/07/2013-28/07/2013 26/07/2013 Medieval and Early Modern
Joad Raymond sedearly A Range of International Workshops for News Networks 2011-2013 01/01/2011 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly International Milton Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 07/07/2008-08/07/2008 07/07/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies sedearly 'Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies: 1500-1700', University of Kent, Canterbury 17/09/2008-19/09/2008 17/09/2008 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Digitizing Correspondence Workshop, sponsored by JISC 17/09/2009 17/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
CELL sedearly Footprints in the Butter: Looking for the Elephant in the Archives 18/09/2009 18/09/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Claire Preston sedearly The Edition as Argument, 1550-1750 16/07/2014-17/07/2014 16/07/2014 Medieval and Early Modern
Kevin Sharpe sedearly Van Dyck and his English Heirs, Queen Mary, University of London, and Tate Britain 06/03/2009 06/03/2009 Medieval and Early Modern
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis sedmiddle Venal Bodies: Prostitutes and Prostitution in Eighteenth Century Culture 04/04/2009 04/04/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 10/06/2011 10/06/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Vanderbilt University & Queen Mary, University of London Eighteenth-Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 01/06/2012 01/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle New Directions in Eighteenth Century Studies, Queen Mary Graduate Conference 31/05/2013 31/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Andrew Lincoln sedmiddle War and British Culture: Living with War in the Eighteenth Century, symposium at the National Army Museum 06/07/2010 06/07/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant, Institute of English Studies, Senate House 10/06/2003 10/06/2003 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Catherine Maxwell, Stefano Evangelista and Patricia Pulham sedmiddle Swinburne: A Centenary Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 10/07/2009-11/07/2009 10/07/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Dissenting Mind: The Aikin Circle, c.1760s to c.1860s, Fourth Annual DWC Conference 17/05/2008 17/05/2008 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Church in Danger: Whiggery, Anticlericalism and Dissent, 1670s-1770s, Stephen Taylor Symposium 24/11/2007 24/11/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1750-1865, Third Annual DWC Conference 19/05/2007 19/05/2007 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn, Second Annual DWC Conference 20/05/2006 20/05/2006 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), Scientist, Philosopher, Theologian, First Annual DWC Conference 05/05/2005 05/05/2005 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Bible, Fifth Annual DWC Conference 23/05/2009 23/05/2009 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle The Shaping of Nonconformist Architecture, Sixth Annual DWC Conference 08/05/2010 08/05/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle John Locke: Theory, Power, and Publics, 1670s-1700s, Mark Goldie Symposium 20/11/2010 20/11/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissenting Academies Libraries Workshop, Harris Manchester College, Oxford 08/03/2011 08/03/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Heart Religion, Seventh Annual DWC Conference 21/05/2011 21/05/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle Enlightenment, Dissent, and Toleration, Symposium 05/11/2011 05/11/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Isabel Rivers and David Wykes sedmiddle 1662 Revisited, Eighth Annual DWC Conference 26/05/2012 26/05/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle 'Talking Books: A Gala Event Marking 80 Years of Service', International Agatha Christie Festival, Torquay 13/09/2015 13/09/2015 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and H. G. Cocks sedmiddle Margins of Print: Ephemera, Print Culture and Lost Histories of the Newspaper, Nottingham 15/01/2010 15/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Texts, Forms, Readings in Europe (18th-21st Centuries), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France 22/05/2013-24/05/2013 22/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 29/06/2013 29/06/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Digital Victorians, London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies 06/07/2013 06/07/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Matthew Rubery and Barbara Taylor sedmiddle History, the Nation and the Schools, co-sponsored by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, the Royal Historical Society and the Historical Association 30/06/2012 30/06/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Barbara Taylor sedmiddle Psychoanalysis and History, Institute of Historical Research 15/05/2013 15/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession, Tenth Annual Dr Williams's Centre Conference 10/05/2014 10/05/2014 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Informal Romanticism, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 06/09/2011-09/09/2011 06/09/2011 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Shandean Humour in Anglo-German Literature and Philosophy, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge 2010 01/01/2010 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus sedmiddle Idea of Fall Workshop, Ludwig-Maxmilians-Universität (LMU) München 2012 01/01/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
James Vigus and David Wykes sedmiddle Worship: The Contrasting Practices of Anglicans, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Unitarians over Three Centuries, Ninth Annual DWC Conference 11/05/2013 11/05/2013 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Tessa Whitehouse sedmiddle Text and Trade: Book History Perspectives of 18th Century Literature, Queen Mary, University of London 15/09/2012 15/09/2012 Eighteenth Century, Romanticism and Nineteenth Century
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The 10th Annual Literary London Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 09/07/2009-10/07/2009 09/07/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Mark Currie sedmodern Prediction, Memory Network, Cheltenham Literary Festival October 2013 01/10/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katherine Fleming sedmodern Seneca in the English Tradition, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick 12/09/2012 12/09/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Great Expectations: Teaching Seminars in Higher Education, English Subject Centre Conference, Queen Mary, University of London 12/09/2008 12/09/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern ‘On the Circuit’, Woodberry Poetry Seminar, Harvard University 14/04/2015 14/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Teaching Performance Poetry, English Subject Centre 04/05/2011 04/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Morag Shiach sedmodern Being Modern: Science and Culture in the early 20th century, Queen Mary University of London 22/04/2015-24/04/2015 22/04/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson, Katy Price and Morag Shiach sedmodern Everydayness and the Event, MSA 15, Sussex 29/08/2013-01/09/2013 29/08/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Modernism Now!, BAMS International Conference, Institute of English Studies, London 26/06/2014-28/06/2014 26/06/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Suzanne Hobson and Celine Magot sedmodern Women and Speed, University of Toulouse 14/12/2012 14/12/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Peter Howarth sedmodern Art of English, Queen Mary, University of London 21/06/2013 21/06/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Katy Price sedmodern Altered Consciousness, 1918-1980, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2013-17/11/2013 16/11/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2008 01/01/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory Today, Raphael Samuel History Centre, Institute of Historical Research 11/06/2010 11/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern In Conversation with Earl Lovelace, Queen Mary, University of London 16/11/2010 16/11/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin's Global Imagination, NYU and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 19/02/2011-20/02/2011 19/02/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with Brian Chikwava, ‘Migrant London in An Age of Neoliberalism’. Launch Event: Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary University of London 22 May 2014 22/05/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern In conversation with George Szirtes: ‘Multilingual writing and translation’. Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing Seminar Series, School of Advanced Studies, University of London 12 March 2013 12/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire and the English Novel, Queen Mary, University of London April 2010 01/04/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Bill Schwarz and Rachael Gilmour sedmodern End of Empire Symposium, British Academy 02/11/2011 02/11/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Nadia Valman sedmodern Willy Goldman's East End My Cradle, Queen Mary, University of London 15/07/2011 15/07/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imagination, Workshop, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 09/09/2015-11/09/2015 09/09/2015 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern The Comic Mask: Theorizing Satire, Humour and Laughter in South African Culture, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, New York University 20/03/2014-23/03/2014 20/03/2014 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Andrew van der Vlies and Rita Barnard sedmodern Contemporary South African Literature: Modernity, Futurity, Banality, Seminar strand, ACLA Convention, Brown University 30/03/2012-01/04/2012 30/03/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Paddy and the Public Sphere: Print Culture and Politics in Late Eighteenth Century Ireland 28/06/2008 28/06/2008 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Censored Ireland 16/06/2012 16/06/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern The Provisional IRA: New Perspectives 17/06/2011 17/06/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Bloody Sunday and the Saville Enquiry 25/06/2010 25/06/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Clair Wills sedmodern Popular Culture and Revolution 20/06/2009 20/06/2009 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Marina Warner, 'Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights' 17/05/2010 17/05/2010 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Rahsid Khalidi, ‘Human Dignity in Jerusalem’ 31/05/2011 31/05/2011 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Mina’s Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution' 24/05/2012 24/05/2012 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Jacqueline Rose sedmodern Part of Edward E. Said Lecture Series: Noam Chomsky, ‘Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East’ 18/03/2013 18/03/2013 Twentieth century, Contemporary and World Literature
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
Name Project Amount and Source of Award Start Date Date
Rehana Ahmed sedmodern Muslims Writing Britain and Beyond: Faith, Class and Multicultural Politics £48,062, Early Career Research Fellowship, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Teesside University 01/09/2011 September 2011-May 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £44,994, Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Peter Howarth sedmodern   £10,000, National Teaching Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern Archival research in Moore archive, Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia, and Pacifica Radio archives, Los Angeles £1524, British Academy Small Grant 01/01/2010 2010
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £10,386, Arts Council England 01/11/2015 June 2015-November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Research Fellowship c. £45,000, Leverhulme Trust 01/06/2015 June – November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Globe Road Poetry Festival £16,000, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/10/2014 1 September 2014 – 1 September 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Collaborative Doctoral Award: British Poetry in Performance, 1960-present c. £50,000, in partnership with Steve Cleary, Sound Archive, British Library 01/06/2014 1 June 2014 – 30 November 2015
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £7040, QMUL Innovation Fund 01/10/2008 October 2008-October 2012
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £8730, QMUL Centre for Public Engagement 01/09/2013 September 2013-June 2014
Andrea Brady sedmodern Archive of the Now £6500, Westfield Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-August 2011
Andrea Brady sedmodern Barque Press £12,600, Arts Council 01/06/2005 June 2005-December 2006
van der Vlies, Andrew and Dr Deborah Seddon sedmodern An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary £74,000, British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 31/01/2015 March 2015-March 2017
Barrett, Michèle sedmodern Imperial War Graves, 1918-1939 £3,941, British Academy 01/02/2007 February 2007-December 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Visiting Fellowship 2005-06: Alison Searle £20,515, Leverhulme Trust 01/01/2006 January-June 2006
Preston, Claire sedearly The Complete Works of Sir Thomas Browne £929,000, AHRC Research Grant 01/02/2013 February 2013- February 2018
Boffey, Julia sedearly   Huntington Library Fellowship 01/04/2016 April 2016
Boffey, Julia sedearly Visiting Fellowship: Stephanie Downes £7, 500, British Academy/Leverhulme Trust 01/08/2010 August 2010-February 2011
Boffey, Julia sedearly Manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530 £46,483, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/01/2010 January 2010-February 2011
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Translation and the making of early modern English print culture (1473-1660) £10,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council Research Programme 01/01/2014 2014
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Bibliographic Society of America Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Folger Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Atkin, Tamara sedearly For work on current book project, 'Drama, Reading and the Invention of the Literary in Tudor England' (forthcoming with Ashgate) Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/01/2015 2016
Boutcher, Warren sedearly Attending Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles £500, British Academy Overseas Conference Grant 01/01/2009 2009
Boutcher, Warren sedearly The School of Montaigne: Rethinking the Origins of the Modern Critical Reader £5,000, University of London 01/05/2007 May 2007-March 2008
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Shakespeare in the Early Modern Global World £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 Septepmber 2006-June 2007
Brotton, Jerry sedearly Mapping the Globe £26,533, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Colclough, David sedearly Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis: a scholarly edition £15,301, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2006 September 2006-December 2006
Colclough, David sedearly John Donne’s Sermons £18,172, AHRC Research Leave Scheme 01/09/2010 September 2010-December 2010
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Social Space of Criticism in Mid Eighteenth-Century London £24,321, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/12/2006 December 2006-June 2008
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle Salon Sociability in the Montagu Correspondence Mayer Fellowship, Huntington Library California 01/03/2007 March 2007-May 2007
Ellis, Markman sedmiddle The Letter and the Salon $5000 Drake Fellowship, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 01/03/2012 March 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Dislocations: reading medieval maps £15,934, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/02/2012 February 2012-June 2012
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World, 1100-1600 £44,567, Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant 01/09/2013 September 2013-2015
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph, The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness (MUP, 2001) AHRB 01/09/1999 Autumn 1999
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture £105,812, Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 01/09/2014 September 2014-August 2016
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle Research Leave Award to complete monograph Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature (MUP, 2008) £28,477, AHRC 01/01/2007 January 2007-October 2007
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Dissenting Academy Libraries and their Readers, 1720-1860 £366,269 AHRC 01/06/2009 June 2009-June 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle A History of the Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860 £247,173 Leverhulme Trust (including £108,663 to the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History) 01/06/2008 June 2008-November 2011
Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle Private Books for Educational Use - the Formation of the Northern Congregational College Library £95,821 AHRC 01/03/2012 March 2012-February 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,169, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholarship 01/09/2011 August 2011-April 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities Funding Award 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship 01/01/2014 2014
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Wellcome Trust Small Grant for the Medical Humanities 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Bibliographical Society of America-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography 01/01/2013 2013
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Edison Fellowship at the British Library 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Leverhulme Research Fellowship 01/01/2012 2012
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar 01/01/2011 2011
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave Award 01/01/2008 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship 01/09/2011 2008
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle   Dean’s Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (University of Pennsylvania) 01/09/2011 2004
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle The Untold Story of the Talking Book £38,681, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship 01/05/2012 May 2012-February 2013
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Visions of black: How Britons came to know US civil rights £30,262, AHRC 01/08/2008 August 2008-June 2009
Schwarz, Bill sedmodern Caribbean Literature after Independence £1,026, British Academy 01/09/2006 September 2006-April 2007
Schwarz, Bill (with Kaplan, Cora) sedmodern James Baldwin: Work, Life and Legacies International Conference supported by: Arts Council of England, British Academy, European Collegium for African-American Research, Ford Foundation, Institute for the Study of the Americas, Westfield Trust 01/06/2007 June 2007
Shiach, Morag sedmodern 2006 Fellowship £30,000, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education 01/07/2006 July 2006-February 2008
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creativeworks London (PI) £4 million, AHRC 01/01/2012 2012-2016
Shiach, Morag sedmodern London Creative and Digital Fusion (CI) £670,000, ERDF 01/01/2012 2012-2015
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Economy Showcase (PI) £18,500, AHRC 01/01/2014 2014
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals (UK/Brazil) (PI) £80,000, AHRC 01/01/2016 2016-17
Shiach, Morag sedmodern Social Change and Creativity (Brazil) (PI) £225,000, AHRC/Newton Fund 01/01/2015 2015-16
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern The Postcolonial Obscene: ethics, aesthetics, & “obscenity” in contemporary South African literary and performance cultures £6,857, British Academy Small Research Grant 01/06/2009 June 2009-May 2011
van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern On Hope and Disappointment in Contemporary South African Literature and Art £44,547, Leverhulme Trust 01/09/2013 September 2013-August 2014
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Vanished Generation: Irish literature and emigration in the 1940s and 1950s £32,216, British Academy Senior Research Fellowship 01/07/2006 July 2006-Febaury 2008
Wills, Clair sedmodern The Irish in Britain: A Social and Cultural History £158,480, Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 1/10/2010 October 2010-September 2013
Name Title of Presentation Event Date
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Parliamentary Voices: Speaking and Reporting in the House of Commons 1750-1800 Voices and Books 1500-1800, British Library 11/11/2014
Rehana Ahmed and Anshuman Mondal sedmodern Writing with Liberty: Literary Controversies and the Responsibilities of Writers and Readers Writing for Liberty, Lancaster University 17/04/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary lecture Montaigne in England and Scotland conference, Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Durham 06/11/2015
Warren Boutcher sedearly Plenary response The Balzan Project ‘Literature as an object of knowledge’, University of Oslo 12/09/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle A Unitarian at Trinity: Robert Garnham (1753-1802) and the Politics of Late Eighteenth-Century Cambridge Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies, Seminar Series 12/06/2013
Christopher Reid sedmiddle Reconstructing Parliamentary Performance 1760-1800 International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference, Chicago 17/07/2013
Shahidha Bari sedmiddle New Ways of Thinking The Hay Philosophy Festival 25/05/2009
John Barrell sedmiddle The History, Theory, and Culture of Roads University of Cork 02/05/2013
John Barrell sedmiddle Thomas Pennant Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 08/06/2013
Julia Boffey sedearly Chaucer’s Lyrics: “many a song and many a lecherous lay” Annual Kent Chaucer Lecture 16/05/2014
Julia Boffey sedearly Note all old English Mss are very valuable The John Rylands Library, Manchester University 17/09/2009
Julia Boffey sedearly Banking on Translation: English Printers and Continental Texts The Medieval Translator international conference, University of Padua 24/07/2010
Julia Boffey sedearly Late Medieval Books Inside and Outside London University of Leicester 18/03/2010
Andrea Brady sedearly Spectres, Superstition, and Popular Literature in Britain, 1640-1660 Gothic Renaissance, University of Cologne 04/12/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly Workshop The Uses of Evidence, Sussex University 16/06/2009
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Country and the City, the Map and the World Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, Hay-on-Wye Festival 30/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly World Maps and the Dawn of Globalisation British Library 04/05/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Mapping the Globe Royal Geographical Society 27/09/2010
Jerry Brotton sedearly Shakespeare’s Islam Shakespeare’s Imagined Orient conference, American University of Beirut 04/05/2011
Jerry Brotton sedearly The Cartographic Rhetoric of Globalism Society of Cartographers, UCL 04/09/2012
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern Radical Unorthodoxy: Mary Butts and H.D.’s Hellenistic Fiction Women Modernists and Spirituality Symposium, University of Stirling 22/05/2014
Suzanne Hobson sedmodern The Ethics of Unbelief in Modernist Fiction Tradition and/or Modernity Literary, Historical and Cultural Perspectives (1660-1940), Radboud University, Nijmegen 26/05/2016
Mark Currie sedmodern Metafiction and the Passage of Time Fiction on Fiction Conference, Crassh, University of Cambridge 16/04/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Theoretical Approaches to the Unforeseeable Uncertainty Conference, University of London 11/06/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Memory in the Future Tense The Future of Memory, University of Roehampton 29/10/2011
Mark Currie sedmodern Creativity and Literary Theory Recreating English, Open University 15/03/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern Some Surprising Things about the Future Anterior Temporality Workshop, University of Portsmouth 29/05/2013
Mark Currie sedmodern A Trace of the Future Traces Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London 14/06/2013
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Invited workshop participant on 'Sensibility’ Yale Centre for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT 07/06/2009
Markman Ellis sedmiddle The Circulation and Organization of Montagu’s Letters in her Lifetime Editing Enlightenment Letters: Elizabeth Montagu’s Correspondence, Huntington Library, Pasadena, CA 13/04/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading Practices in Elizabeth Montagu’s Epistolary Network of the 1750s Vanderbilt University, 18th and 19th Century Research Colloquium 24/02/2012
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Reading in the Elizabeth Montagu Circle ’Voices in Dialogue': Ideational Production and Reception of Women's Writing in Europe, European COST Action IS 0901 Women Writers In History, Chawton House Library 03/11/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Samuel Scott’s London Shore Literary London, Institute of English Studies, University of London 22/07/2011
Markman Ellis sedmiddle What is Cultural History? Angles: Birkbeck Postgraduate Conference, Birkbeck University of London 15/06/2010
Markman Ellis sedmiddle Encounters, Affinities, Legacies The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day Conference, University of York 28/06/2013
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern "Sight, sounds and meaning": 1970s black British poetry and its ‘arc to the future’ An Arc to the Future: Preserving and Promoting Orature in the South African Literary Imaginary, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 09/11/2015
Rachael Gilmour sedmodern “When brain meet book it dread”: Postcolonial Linguistics as Language Activism in 1980s Britain’ Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics, University of Bremen 03/09/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle "Realpoetik": Revolution by Other Means in European Romantic Restoration Thought Republican Exchanges, c. 1550-1850, University of Newcastle 17/07/2009
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Beyond Words: the Ambition of Romantic Manifestos April Conference Thirteen: Beyond Words: Crossing borders in English Studies, Jagiellon University, Krakòw, Poland 24/04/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and the Future, House of Arts and Letters, Paphos, Cyprus 24/10/2014
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle The aesthetic humanism of Felicia Hemans Centro di Studi Romantica, University of Bologna 24/10/2015
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Plenary Romanticism and Responsibility: Concepts, Debates and Actions in Europe and Its Colonies, 1770s to 1830s, University of Cyprus 03/09/2010
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Romantic Occasionalism Informal Romanticism, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 08/09/2011
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Future Restoration BARS conference, University of Southampton 27/07/2013
Paul Hamilton sedmiddle Exceptions The Long 20th Century, Goldsmiths College, University of London 18/09/2013
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Les espaces du passé au Moyen Age (Spaces of the Past in the Middle Ages) Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris 01/03/2014
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Land not yet: From terra incognita to Terra Australis Perceptions of Terra Australis, Network for Early European Research Symposium, Perth, Australia 12/06/2009
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Cartographical Sources between the Middle Ages and Modernity Fondazione Centro Studi sulla Civiltà del Tardo Medioevo, San Miniato, Italy 08/09/2010
Alfred Hiatt sedearly Maps of Empires Past Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History and the Demise of Empires, ASNEL/GNEL Annual Conference, University of Bern 19/05/2012
Peter Howarth sedmodern In Concert With Poetry and Collaboration in the Age of Modernism, Trinity College Dublin 01/07/2015
Peter Howarth sedmodern Environmentalism and Performance Theory Association of Arts of the Present (ASAP) conference, Trier, Germany 29/10/2010
David James sedmodern Dissident Elegy: From Conrad to Coetzee Modernism and Life Writing, University of Zurich 06/12/2014
David James sedmodern Decentring Englishness State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Société d'Etudes Anglaises Contemporaines, Université Paris Diderot 24/10/2014
David James sedmodern Worldly Localisms Bloomsbury C21 Writings Conference, Brighton 10/04/2014
David James sedmodern “Twisted Surfaces and Turned-Out Membranes”: Externalism Today Wyndham Lewis: Networks, Dialogues, and Communities, Institute of English Studies, University of London 30/11/2012
David James sedmodern Novel Geographies at Mid-Century Space: From Theory to Practice, Birkbeck, University of London 16/11/2012
David James sedmodern Teaching the When without Forgetting the How Higher Education Academy: Teaching Post-Millennial Literature, Brighton University 02/07/2012
David James sedmodern Wounding the Contemporary Novel Humanities Research Centre Symposium, Keele University 12/06/2013
David James sedmodern Form, Periodicity, and Contemporary Fiction Modern and Contemporary Novel Subject Day, Prince’s Teaching Institute and Pimlico Academy, London 02/02/2013
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scent, Aestheticism, Decadence The Affective Turn Symposium, Royal College of Art 21/02/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Carnal Flowers, Charnel Flowers: Perfume in the Decadent Literary Imagination Decadence and the Senses Conference, Goldsmiths, London 10/04/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination Michael Field Centenary Conference, IES, London 11/07/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Perfumed Melodies: Tracking Literary Scent Memory from Shakespeare to Michael Field Feeling for the Past: Remembering though the Senses Conference, Sorbonne Nouvelle 3 10/10/2014
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence Decadent Poetics, Exeter University 01/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell sedmiddle The Pleasures of Melancholy Poetry and Melancholy, Stirling University 07/07/2011
Catherine Maxwell State of the Discipline: Victorian Literature Nineteenth Century Studies Postgraduate Conference, IES sedmiddle 20/04/2013
Margaret Reynolds sedmiddle sedmodern From Sappho to X… Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 21/09/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Interpreting the Bible in eighteenth-century England The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford 19/10/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle How evangelicals in the long eighteenth century transformed practical works by two late Stuart clergymen, William Beveridge and Benjamin Jenks Concepts of Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century: Thomas Plume in Context, Centre for Bibliographical Studies at the University of Essex 26/09/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Religious publishing and religious books AHRC/RSE Colloquium on Literary Commerce, University of Edinburgh 20/07/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Advice about Religious Reading Religion and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century: approaches to genre, form, and reading practice, Chawton House, Hampshire 15/05/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Library of the Methodist Editor and Tutor Thomas Jackson, donated in 1859 to the Wesleyan Theological Institution, Richmond Libraries in the Community, Queen Mary University of London 24/01/2015
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Approaches and questions for scholars of religion and literature: A personal view Reading, Writing and Religion 1660-1830 Colloquium, Queen Mary University of London 07/12/2013
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle William Law and Religious Revival Conference on Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures, at the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles 30/09/2005
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Autobiographical Reflections on Method AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme and NORFACE Research Programme, Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion Conference 29/03/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man: The Fortunes of a Book Conference on L’héritage judeo-chrétien dans la culture et la civilisation anglo-américaine des XVII et XVIIIème siècles of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVII et XVIIIème siècles, Sorbonne, Paris 24/11/2006
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Eighteenth-Century Dissenting Academies Conference on Religion and the Enlightenment, the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University 12/04/2007
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle John Wesley’s Editions of Devotional Writers Wesley Historical Society and World Methodist Historical Society Conference, Sarum College, Salisbury 01/04/2008
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle What Religious History and Book History can Learn from each other The History of the Book: Culture, Community, Criticism, Chetham’s Library, Manchester 21/01/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival International John Bunyan Society - Sixth Triennial Conference, Keele 26/07/2010
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Philip Doddridge’s New Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) God’s Word in English conference, Antwerp & Leuven 25/03/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Pilgrim’s Progress in the evangelical revival Sussex Centre for Intellectual History 21/11/2011
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor Annual John Wesley lecture, Lincoln College, Oxford 24/05/2012
Isabel Rivers sedmiddle The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian Religion and the Idea of a Research University Conference, Clare College, Cambridge 04/04/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle What is the History of Audiobooks? Books and/as New Media symposia held at Harvard and the University of Edinburgh 09/07/2015
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Can a Book Talk? Art in Translation conference, University of Iceland and Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavík, Iceland 18/09/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Thomas Edison’s Poetry Machine London Nineteenth Century Seminar Graduate Conference 26/04/2014
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle How to Read a Talking Book Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 29/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Reading on the Move after 1877 in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion postgraduate conference, University of Birmingham 27/07/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Literature Out Loud: Using Audio Resources in the Classroom Who are the Victorians? Constructions of Identity in the Nineteenth Century postgraduate conference, University of Leeds 06/09/2008
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle Canned Literature: The Book after Edison Victorian Media Conference, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 26/04/2012
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle TBC Literature, Media, and Sound conference, Aarhus University, Denmark 28/11/2013
Matthew Rubery sedmiddle "London Horrors": Investigative Journalism in the 19th Century Twelfth Annual Literary London Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London 19/07/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Decolonization and postcolonial history Cultures of Decolonization, 1945-1970, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 30/05/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Memory in the epoch of colonization European Memory Network, Stavanger University 12/12/2012
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin now James Baldwin II: His Times, Our Times, Suffolk University, Boston 21/03/2009
Bill Schwarz sedmodern James Baldwin and Black Power Internationalising Black Power, Centre for Caribbean Thought, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 22/02/2007
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The present uses of the Past Raphael Samuel History Centre, QMUL 05/03/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern The 1905 Aliens Act Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College 12/02/2013
Bill Schwarz sedmodern Shadows of Disorder In the Shadow of Empire: The present Imperial Imaginaries of London and Paris, Department of Film and Television, Warwick University 17/05/2008
Morag Shiach sedmodern Enhancing Teaching and Learning through a Research-Rich Environment Neil Stewart Associates’ Conference, Maintaining Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, London 26/05/2010
Morag Shiach sedmodern Can the Public University be Saved Warwick Higher Education Summit 28/01/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Labour Material and Immaterial Work Ethics: Rethinking Literary Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century, Cambridge 06/10/2012
Morag Shiach sedmodern Creative Economy in Perspective: Creative Hubs ABRAPCORP Conference (Communication, Creative Economy, and Organisations), Sao Paulo, Brazil 17/05/2016
Morag Shiach sedmodern Immaterial Labour and the Work of Literature Australasian Modernist Studies Network, Sydney 29/04/2016
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern Fighting Together for a Better Past: The Story of Cable Street Pears Institute for Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, London 10/10/2011
Nadia Valman sedmiddle sedmodern The Virtuous Jewess Institute of Germanic Studies, London 07/07/2011
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern J.M. Coetzee is Bored Global Modernism Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 04/04/2014
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern Boundaries, Bonds(wo)men, and Literary Cyborgs: Adoption and the Politics of Translation in a Contemporary South African Novel Bonds & Boundaries Conference, UCL Society for Comparative Cultural Inquiry Postgraduate Conference, University College London 19/06/2015
Andrew van der Vlies sedmodern On Loose Ends: Futurity, Banality, and the Situation in Contemporary South African Writing Reflections on the Study of South African Literature: A Colloquium, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, SA 23/04/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle ‘Conscience is God’: Macbeth and Coleridge’s Translation of Wallenstein Coleridge the Shakespearean, Halsway 24/08/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Pitchforked chaos or mosaic method? Coleridge’s philosophical sources Diffractions: Researching into sources, influences, interactions in literature and philosophy, Italian Department, Warwick 11/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle Die Aktualitaet der Romantik Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 09/12/2010
James Vigus sedmiddle That which people do trample upon must be thy food: The Animal Creation in The Journal of George Fox Ethical Perspectives on Animals, LMU Munich 06/10/2011
James Vigus sedmiddle The ‘owlet atheism’ in 1790s England I filosofi e il libero pensiero (secoli XVII-XVIII), Naples 17/10/2013
James Vigus sedmiddle Literary Reporter or Dissenting Autobiographer? Editing Henry Crabb Robinson Research Seminar on Early Modern Britain (17th & 18th Centuries), Aix-Marseille Université 31/03/2014
James Vigus sedmiddle 'Do Friends allow puns': Lamb on Quakers, Language and Silence Charles Lamb Society Lecture 31/03/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle The 'Kantian Gospel' from Crabb Robinson to Coleridge Impact of Idealism, Magdalene College, Cambridge 08/09/2012
James Vigus sedmiddle Wordsworth’s ‘Poetic Quakerism’ Romantic Realignments seminar, Oxford 28/02/2013
Clair Wills sedmodern Inventing and Reinventing the Irish Woman UCD 10/10/2008
Clair Wills sedmodern Realism and the Irish Immigrant International Association for the Study of Irish Literature, NUI Maynooth 28/07/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern The Best are Leaving: The Contents and Discontents of Irish Emigration in the 1950s Canadian Association of Irish Studies, St Mary’s University, Halifax 22/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern If Yeats had Saved his pencil lead/Would certain men have stayed in bed? Carole and Gordon Segal Lecture, Northwestern University 04/05/2010
Clair Wills sedmodern Documentary Fiction and Irish Labour University of Notre Dame 31/03/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Elizabeth Bowen in the 1950s Bowen/Trevor Summer School, Cork, Ireland 17/07/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Guest Lecture IASIL Japan Bi-Annual Conference, Kyoto, Japan 09/10/2011
Clair Wills sedmodern Plenary A Symposium in Honour of Siobhan Kilfeather 29/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Sent abroad to lie: International News and Libel in C17th Britain and Europe News in Early Modern Europe, University of Sussex 07/06/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Being sent abroad to lie: International Dimensions of Libeling Libel: Discourses and Practices in Early Modern Britain and Europe, c.1500-1800, Rutgers University 21/04/2012
Joad Raymond sedearly Plenary Pedlars, Pamphlets and the Popular Press, Utrecht 15-16/06/2010
Joad Raymond sedearly Roundtable: Perceptions of the media in the early modern period Perception, Reception: The History of the Media in Society, Aberystwyth 04/07/2013
Joad Raymond sedearly On Pamphlets and other Papers Baroque and Communication, the University of Seville 18/11/2009
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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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Preston, Claire sedearly

A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

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'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

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Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

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'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

In Person

Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Ahnert, Ruth and Tamara Atkin sedearly

Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

On Air

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

On Air

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

In Person

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

In Person

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

In Person

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

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Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

Andrea Brady - The Other Room Interview from The Other Room on Vimeo.

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

Andrea Brady - The Other Room Interview from The Other Room on Vimeo.

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

On Air

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

On Air

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

In Person

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

In Person

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

In Person

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

In Person

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

In Person

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle

Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle

Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle

Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle

Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Price, Katy sedmodern

Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle

Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

On Air

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

On Air

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

On Air

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

On Air

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

In Person

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

In Person

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

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Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

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'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

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Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

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'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

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Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

In Person

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

In Person

Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

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'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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Preston, Claire sedearly

A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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Ahnert, Ruth and Tamara Atkin sedearly

The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

In Person

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

In Person

Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

In Person

Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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Preston, Claire sedearly

A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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Ahnert, Ruth and Tamara Atkin sedearly

The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

Andrea Brady - The Other Room Interview from The Other Room on Vimeo.

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

On Air

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

On Air

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

In Person

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

In Person

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

In Person

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

In Person

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

In Person

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

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Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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Preston, Claire sedearly

A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

Andrea Brady - The Other Room Interview from The Other Room on Vimeo.

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

On Air

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

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Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

In Person

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

In Print

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle

Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle

Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle

Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle

Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Raymond, Joad sedearly

Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Price, Katy sedmodern

Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle

Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Brady, Andrea sedearly sedmodern

Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

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Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

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'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

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Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

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'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

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Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

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'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

In Person

Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Monks, Aoife

Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

On Air

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

On Air

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

In Person

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

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Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

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Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

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Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

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Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

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Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

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Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

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Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

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Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

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Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

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Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

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Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

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Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

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Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

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Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Bardsley, Julia

Action Lectures: Dickie Beau

02/12/2015

Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).

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Bardsley, Julia

Testament

04/06/2014

Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).

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Bardsley, Julia

Inside Medea's Lab

05/08/2014

Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).

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Ridout, Nicholas

I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?

08/03/2015

Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.

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Monks, Aoife

Freshwater

05/15/2012

Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)

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Monks, Aoife

Boucicault

01/01/2013

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'

05/20/2011

Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)

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Monks, Aoife

Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'

02/13/2015

Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)

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Interview with Fiona Shaw

09/28/2013

Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)

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Monks, Aoife

Speaker on Boucicault

04/01/2014

Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).

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Monks, Aoife

How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated

05/05/2015

Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).

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Monks, Aoife

Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'

05/23/2012

Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).

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Bardsley, Julia

Video in Performance

08/16/2013

Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).

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Bardsley, Julia

Performing from Myth

03/18/2013

Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing Home

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Out of Time & Place

07/19/2015

Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).

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Davids, Nadia

Writing a New South Africa

02/26/2015

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).

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Radio Interview

12/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).

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Radio Interview

11/01/2014

Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

05/13/2014

Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).

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Harvie, Jen

Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts

10/17/2015

Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

New Books in Critical Theory

02/09/2015

Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).

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Harvie, Jen

On Publicness

09/29/2014

Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).

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Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic

15 Minutes with...

09/01/2014

Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).

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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle

BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895

08/03/2015

Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).

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Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W

08/15/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).

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Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent

07/10/2015

Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).

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Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews

10/30/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).

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Knit Your Own Revolution

07/31/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).

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Front Row

10/14/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).

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Season of Academic Fruitfulness

09/18/2014

Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).

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Review of 'The Culinary Imagination

09/11/2014

Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).

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Front Row

08/29/2014

Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).

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From shell shock to Shellac

07/01/2014

Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair

09/20/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain

09/19/2012

Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).

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Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5

05/21/2014

Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'

07/03/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'

10/14/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Magic Me Collaboration

01/01/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).

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McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts

03/4/2015

Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?

05/20/2014

Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

The Venice Ghetto

03/06/2016

Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).

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The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book

10/13/2014

Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).

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Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo

10/8/2014

Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: Othello

10/20/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

In the Footsteps of St Peter

04/05/2015

Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

My Shakespeare: King Lear

10/27/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).

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Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Shakespeare and Islam

03/12/2014

Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).

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Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas

02/21/2014

Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).

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Boutcher, Warren sedmodern

Video Interview

02/16/2014

Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Book of the Week

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).

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Stephen Nolan

02/15/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).

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Today

02/12/2014

Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).

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Robert Elms Show

02/05/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).

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Five Hundred Years of Friendship

03/28/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).

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Moncrieff

02/17/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).

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Newshour

02/09/2014

Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).

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Woman's Hour

02/06/2014

Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).

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Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern

Stuart Hall Obituary

02/10/2014

Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).

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Weaver, Lois

15 Minutes With...

1/29/2014

Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).

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Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern

Q&A with Newspaper Researchers

01/08/2014

Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).

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Preston, Claire sedearly

A Brief History of Cider

06/10/2012

Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).

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Late Night Live

08/06/2013

Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).

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The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe

04/17/2013

Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).

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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Night Waves

01/13/2009

Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).

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Interview

03/01/2009

Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).

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Interview

04/01/2009

Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).

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In Our Time

12/31/2009

Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).

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Woman's Hour

03/10/2011

Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).

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Ahnert, Ruth and Tamara Atkin sedearly

The Radio 4 Psalter

08/06/2014

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).

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Psalms Podcast

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).

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Video Interview

09/20/2013

Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

The Human Copying Machine

11/01/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).

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Powerful Emotions

06/01/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).

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Watt Smith, Tiffany

From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'

01/17/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).

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How Language Influences Emotion

12/17/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).

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Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions

01/11/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).

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How To Let It All Out

10/02/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).

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Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions

09/16/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).

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The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality

01/01/2012

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).

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The Science of Baby Laughter

11/15/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/21/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).

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The History of Emotions

09/16/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).

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Touch and Emotion

07/01/15

Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).

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The Human Copying Machine

11/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).

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On mimicking

09/22/13

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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The Book of Human Emotions

09/14/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).

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From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions

09/11/2015

Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).

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The words that describe your indescribable feelings

01/25/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).

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Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?

01/27/2016

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).

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BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine

11/02/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).

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War Neuroses and Shell Shock

07/03/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).

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Boredom

04/07/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).

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In the Interest of Boredom

01/05/2014

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).

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The Body Sphere - ABC Radio

09/22/2013

Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).

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Proms Plus Literary

08/11/2014

Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).

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Saturday Review

08/16/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).

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Front Row

06/17/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).

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Front Row

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).

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From Our Own Correspondent

03/22/2014

Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).

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Poetry Idol

03/29/2014

Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).

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The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

02/23/2016

Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).

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Sew What?

04/23/2014

Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).

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The Hamlet Doctrine

10/21/2013

Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).

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Front Row

11/06/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/26/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).

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Front Row

07/19/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).

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Magic and Mischief from Africa

07/18/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).

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Grains of Truth

03/06/2014

Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).

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Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in

5/26/2013

Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).

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Participation Rates: Now we are 50

7/25/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).

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Front Row

7/1/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).

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Front Row

4/16/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).

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Front Row

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).

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Scents and Sensibility

04/06/2013

Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).

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Sea Without Shore

05/03/2015

Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).

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Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'

5/28/2013

Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).

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Saloua Raouda Choucair

5/9/2013

Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).

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Front Row: Utopias in Fiction

01/21/2016

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).

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Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

11/11/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).

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Front Row

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).

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The Secret, Contentious History of Maps

11/30/2013

Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).

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A History of the World in Twelve Maps

11/15/2013

Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).

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The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay

06/01/2014

Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).

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Perpetually Watch Again

06/02/2014

Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).

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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation

03/14/2013

Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography

05/07/2013

Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).

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A History of the World in 12 Maps

11/21/2012

Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).

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Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013

01/01/2013

Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).

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Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest

07/03/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).

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Video Interview

05/04/2013

Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).

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Mapping Ulster

04/29/2013

Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).

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Einstein's Fridge

02/03/2016

Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).

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Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe

01/09/2013

Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).

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Victorian Science Spectacular

09/01/2012

Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).

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Video Interview

05/27/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).

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The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry

07/10/2015

Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).

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On Nicholas Moore

09/24/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).

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Both Sides of the Footlights

09/09/2015

Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).

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Electroplated Fish Knife

05/31/2015

Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).

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Holy Apple Pie!

05/15/2014

Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).

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Video Interview

05/21/2013

Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).

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Royal Society Public Lecture

04/26/2013

Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).

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National Theatre

4/23/2013

Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).

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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson

4/17/2013

James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).

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Poet in the City: Coleridge

3/25/2013

Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).

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Times Higher Education Podcast

4/3/2013

Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).

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Weekend Woman's Hour

01/02/2016

Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).

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Front Row

11/13/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).

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Night Waves

06/02/2008

Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).

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The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking

12/15/2012

Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).

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Spark Radio, Radio-Canada

12/07/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).

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Baroque in Britain

03/11/2013

Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).

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Front Row

02/22/2012

Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).

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Front Row

08/23/2009

Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).

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Front Row

10/09/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).

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NPR: Talk of the Nation

11/22/2012

Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).

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Front Row

02/16/2009

Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).

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Front Row

12/11/2008

Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).

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Front Row

08/06/2008

Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).

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Wired Magazine

08/05/2013

Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).

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The Guardian

10/23/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).

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Hay Festival

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).

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Let's take maps back from Google

06/01/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).

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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library

09/17/2009

Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).

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In Our Time

10/18/2012

Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).

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Poetry Performance

06/28/2014

Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)

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‘The Exponential Horn’

06/06/2014

Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)

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Podcast

10/08/2012

Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.

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Today

09/03/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).

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Night Waves

05/03/2011

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).

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Night Waves

04/19/2010

Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).

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Meet the Author

08/24/2012

Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).

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Night Waves

05/16/2012

Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).

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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London

04/04/2014

Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/17/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).

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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'

10/22/2013

Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).

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In Conversation

05/30/2013

Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).

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Victorian Journalists in London's East End

05/19/2012

Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).

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SW11 Literary Festival

09/20/2010

Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).

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Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM

03/05/2012

Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).

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Audio Guide to the East End

01/01/2012

Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).

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Fighting for a Better Past

10/10/2011

Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).

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Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared

05/27/2011

Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).

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The One Show

12/20/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).

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Who Do You Think You Are?

03/02/2009

Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).

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London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day

10/14/2006

Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).

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News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century

10/29/2008

Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).

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Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London

10/07/2008

Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).

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Coffee, Please

01/01/2010

Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).

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La Belle Juive

05/01/2007

Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).

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Press TV

10/09/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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Making History

10/04/2011

Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).

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The National Theatre

04/01/2012

Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).

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Other Room

03/01/2012

Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).

Andrea Brady - The Other Room Interview from The Other Room on Vimeo.

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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes

01/17/2012

Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).

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Thinking Allowed

12/14/2011

Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).

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Free Thinking Festival Debate

12/05/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).

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Resonance FM

11/02/2011

Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).

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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

04/16/2010

Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).

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Writing the Now

09/01/2010

Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.

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Open Book

09/11/2011

Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).

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Roundtable Discussion

02/12/2013

Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).

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Night Waves

07/13/2011

Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).

On Air

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The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain

12/09/2015

Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).

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The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century

03/27/2015

Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).

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Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England

06/05/2014

Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).

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Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?

09/21/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).

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How Britain Fell in Love with Tea

06/01/2015

Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).

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The Guardian

10/25/2010

Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).

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Audiobooks before Audiobooks

08/19/2013

Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).

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Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook

04/07/2015

Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).

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Podcast

12/15/2011

Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).

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Great Expectations

11/01/2010

Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).

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Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession

05/01/2010

Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.

On Air

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Thinking Allowed

02/01/2010

Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).

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Babble Machine

11/29/2012

Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/26/2012

Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).

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Walking Tours

10/26/2015

Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.

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Walking Tours

05/13/2015

Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).

In Person

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Inside Out Festival

10/23/2012

Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).

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Discussion

10/05/2012

David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).

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Taunton Literary Festival

09/28/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

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Ilkley Literary Festival

10/06/2012

Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.

In Person

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Cape Town's Open Book Festival

09/21/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).

In Person

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HowTheLightGetsIn

06/07/2012

Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

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Keynote Lecture

04/04/2013

Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).

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Joseph Williams and his Journal

09/25/2004

Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).

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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City

05/23/2007

Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).

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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford

05/01/2012

Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).

In Person

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LSE Literary Festival

03/02/2012

Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).

In Person

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The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival

11/21/2011

Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).

In Person

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

In Person

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Mapping Ulster

03/28/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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The End of Empire and the English Novel

11/02/2011

Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).

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Cultures of Journalism

08/28/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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In Our Time

01/06/2006

Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).

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Word of Mouth

12/24/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).

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Blood on Our Hands

02/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).

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Killer Wave

04/01/2005

Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).

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Radio Scotland - Angels

01/01/2004

Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).

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The Shock of the Old

07/23/2013

Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).

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Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls

05/22/2012

Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).

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From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality

08/18/2011

Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).

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The Humanities and Money

06/16/2011

Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).

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Triggered

06/13/2011

‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).

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Woman's Hour

11/07/2013

Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).

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Faulks on Fiction

06/24/2011

Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).

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Robert Browning and the Pied Piper

04/16/2012

Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).

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Word of Mouth

04/15/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/19/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).

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The Essay: Sappho

06/03/2008

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).

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Word of Mouth

08/12/2008

Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).

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A Portrait of Ethel Smyth

03/29/2008

Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).

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Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned

07/10/2012

Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).

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Le Nozze di Figaro

07/10/2013

Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).

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Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons

08/02/2011

Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).

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Interpreting Sappho

08/17/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).

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Today Programme: George Orwell

01/21/2013

Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).

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The Literary Life of the Cello

07/20/2011

Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).

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Great Lives: Sappho

08/10/2010

Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'

05/20/2012

Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'

05/18/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'

06/08/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'

05/19/2013

Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).

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Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'

06/29/2013

Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).

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Twenty Minutes

05/24/2013

Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).

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The Guardian

02/12/2013

Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).

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Revealing Anne Lister

06/09/2010

Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).

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Adventures in Poetry

04/28/2012

Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).

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Night Waves

02/15/2011

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).

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Night Waves

06/16/2009

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).

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Off the Page

05/29/2008

Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).

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The Guardian

05/16/2013

Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).

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Brave New World

04/09/2009

Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).

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Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

10/23/2008

To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).

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Degree of Famousness etc.

03/21/2011

Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).

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Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor

01/10/2011

Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).

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Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth

09/27/2010

Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).

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Maps will always have mileage

04/14/2010

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).

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Ordnance Survey Blog

09/25/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).

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The Guardian

09/05/2013

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).

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The Guardian

12/19/2012

Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).

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The Canton Tea Company Blog

07/06/2011

Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).

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Word of Mouth

01/22/2013

Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).

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A Few Don'ts

12/02/2012

Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).

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Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town

04/16/2014

Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).

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Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims

08/18/2014

Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).

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Poetry Performance

11/25/2009

Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).

Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

9/8/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).

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Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)

5/1/2007

Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).

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Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture

6/1/2006

Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).

In Person

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Sunday Feature: Courting the East

7/22/2007

Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).

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Davids, Nadia

Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist

04/17/2013

Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Performance Pod 211

08/09/2013

Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).

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Harvie, Jen

Online Lecture

02/25/2011

Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).

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Harvie, Jen

The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre

04/05/2013

Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).

Heritage, Paul

Jornal da Globo

12/22/2008

A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).

In Print

Heritage, Paul

Start the Week

12/01/2008

Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).

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Johnson, Dominic

Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson

09/20/2014

Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Explosiv Magazin

05/08/2009

Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).

On Air

Johnson, Dominic

HRT News

05/17/2009

Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).

On Air

Johnson, Dominic

Weekend

10/27/2012

Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).

On Air

Johnson, Dominic

Transmission

01/01/2009

Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

WGXC Afternoon Show

05/01/2012

Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).

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Escolme, Bridget

A Tarde

02/01/2013

Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).

Escolme, Bridget

'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'

05/19/2012

Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).

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Johnson, Dominic

'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'

10/17/2012

Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).

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Silverstone, Catherine

So you want to study acting?

09/13/2008

Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).

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Silverstone, Catherine

Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')

04/23/2012

Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).

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Davids, Nadia

South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence

03/02/2010

Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).

In Person

Davids, Nadia

Imagining South Africa

04/19/2010

As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).

In Person

Davids, Nadia

Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team

04/21/2010

Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).

In Person

Welton, Martin

Flow

03/09/2015

Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).

In Person

Welton, Martin

No Lander

10/28/2015

Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).

In Person

Welton, Martin

Elixir Project Blog

09/01/2014

Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)

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Welton, Martin

Uncommon Perspectives

02/01/2010

Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)

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Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

10/06/2015

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).

In Person

Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2009

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).

In Person

Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

08/1/2013

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).

In Person

Escolme, Bridget

'Setting the Scene'

07/1/2012

Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).

In Person

Harvie, Jen

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).

In Person

Heritage, Paul

Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts

01/13/2008

Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).

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Heritage, Paul

Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change

11/04/2009

Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).

Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.

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Silverstone, Catherine

Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation

05/01/2012

Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’

06/01/2010

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference

12/01/2009

Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).

In Person

Silverstone, Catherine

Private Romeo

10/01/2011

Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Unrestrained Indulgence

12/04/2010

Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld

11/05/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Discussion with Marisa Carnesky

10/29/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).

In Person

Johnson, Dominic

Discussions with Mark Ravenhill

2/13/2010

Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
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The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

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Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

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Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

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Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

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Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

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Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

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Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

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Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

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Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

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Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

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James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

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Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

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Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

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David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

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David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

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Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

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Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

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Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

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Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

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Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

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Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

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Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

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Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

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Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

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Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

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Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern

Rehana Ahmed

Rehana Ahmed


Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
Manchester University Press
2015

This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...

Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism

2015

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume One
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author

2016

Boutcher, Warren sedearly

Warren Boutcher

Warren Boutcher


The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume Two
Oxford University Press
2016

This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...

The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

2016

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

2016

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Pickering & Chatto
1992

In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...

William Godwin, 'St Leon'

1992

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
Penguin
1996

A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...

Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'

1996

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit

Pamela Clemit


The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
The Clarendon Press
2001

The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...

The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley

1993 (repr. 2001)

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)

Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)


William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Broadview
2001

Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'

2001

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


William Godwin, Caleb Williams
Oxford University Press
2009

Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...

William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'

2009

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797
Oxford University Press
2011

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
Cambridge University Press
2011

This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s

2011

Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle

Pamela Clemit (ed.)

Pamela Clemit (ed.)


The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805
Oxford University Press
2014

Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...

The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805

2014

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre

1994

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Modern Genre Theory

1999

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)

Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic

2007

Duff, David sedmiddle

David Duff

Romanticism and the Uses of Genre

2013

McBean, Sam sedmodern

Sam McBean

Sam McBean


Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Routledge
2015

Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

2015

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Oxford University Press
2016

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...

The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England

2015

Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle

Tessa Whitehouse

Tessa Whitehouse


The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
2015

Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...

The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800

2015

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660

1993

Bardsley, Julia

Julia Bardsley

Julia Bardsley


'u' see the image of her 'i'
Pop Bard Projects
2014

For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...

'u' see the image of her 'i'

2014

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Nadia Davids


An Imperfect Blessing
Umuzi
2014

It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...

An Imperfect Blessing

2014

Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger

Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton and Matthew Mauger


Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
Reaktion Books
2015

Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...

Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World

2015

Inchley, Maggie

Maggie Inchley

Maggie Inchley


Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the Demos
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...

Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos

2015

James, David sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Cambridge University Press
2016

This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945

2015

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Palgrave Macmillan
2015

Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...

The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art

2015

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt Smith


The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Profile Books
2015

From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...

The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust

2015

Weaver, Harvie

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)

Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)


The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Intellect
2015

Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...

The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver

2015

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo

Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'

2010

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Dorling Kindersley
2014

In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...

Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

2014

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin

Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin


Readings in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2014

Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...

Readings in Costume

2014

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second edition
Routledge
2014

This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn

2014

Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)


Performance Research: On Affirmation
Routledge
2014

This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...

Performance Research: On Affirmation

2014

Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)

Catherine Silverstone (ed.)


Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
John Hopkins University Press
2014 (forthcoming)

The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...

Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’

2014

Watt-Smith, Tiffany

Tiffany Watt-Smith

Tiffany Watt-Smith


On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Oxford University Press
2014

On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...

On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock

2014

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Penguin
2014

The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times

2014

 

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012

2013

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Bloomsbury Publishing
2013

Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...

Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
Oxford University Press
2013

Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...

Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics

2013

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Oxford University Press
2103; forthcoming

  • The first volume to be published in the new Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne
  • The only in print edition of the sermons
  • This volume contains the fourteen sermons preached by Donne at the court of Charles I, and is the first annotated edition of these sermons
  • Offers freshly-edited and authoritative texts
  • Includes a substantial introductory essay, which sets sermons firmly in the context of their delivery while also analysing their style and Donne's doctrinal positions.
Read more...

The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III

2013

Macdonald, Molly sedmodern

Molly Macdonald

Molly Macdonald


Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Routledge
2013

Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...

Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"

2013

Marsh, Huw sedmodern

Huw Marsh

Huw Marsh


Beryl Bainbridge
Northcote House Publishers Ltd
2014

This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...

Beryl Bainbridge

2014

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)

Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)


Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Brill
2013

This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...

Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820

2013

Atkin, Tamara sedearly

Tamara Atkin

Tamara Atkin


The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality
Brepols Publishers
2013

The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...

The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553

2013

Ahnert, Ruth sedearly

Ruth Ahnert

Ruth Ahnert


The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Cambridge University Press
2013

Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...

The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century

2013

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Palgrave Macmillan
2013

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...

Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism

2013

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
University of Michigan Press
2013

Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...

Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
University of Chicago Press
2013

This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey

2013

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Arden Shakespeare
2013; forthcoming

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves

2013

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)

Julia Boffey and A.S.G. Edwards (eds)


A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
D.S. Brewer
2013

This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...

A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry

2013

Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)

Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)


Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Princeton University Press
2013

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader

2013

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Invention of Deconstruction
Palgrave MacMillan
2013

This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...

The Invention of Deconstruction

2013

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
Manchester University Press
2013

This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate

2013

James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern

David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)

Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments

2012

James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)

David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)


Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Continuum T & T Clark
2014

This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...

Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

2014

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
University of Wales Press
2013

Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...

Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'

2013

Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)

Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry

1991

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
Routledge
2013

Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...

Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK

2013

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

At Her Feet: A Play

2009

Davids, Nadia

Nadia Davids

Cissie: A Play

2009

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
Routledge
2005

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...

Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self

2005

Escolme, Bridget

Bridget Escolme

Bridget Escolme


Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
Palgrave Macmillan
2006

This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life

2006

Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)

Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)


Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...

Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre

2012

Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)

Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)

'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'

2006

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Theatre & the City
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...

Theatre & the City

2009

Harvie, Jen

Jen Harvie

Jen Harvie


Staging the UK
Manchester University Press
2005

‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...

Staging the UK

2005

Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain

Jen Harvie and Paul Allain


The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Routledge
2006

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance

2006

Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)

Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)


Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Manchester University Press
2010

Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...

Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes

2010

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Encounters Beyond Text

2011

Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan

Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan

Amazônia

2008

Heritage, Paul

Paul Heritage

Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance

2009

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Franko B, Blinded by Love
Damiani
2007

The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...

Franko B, Blinded by Love

2007

Ingleby, Matthew

Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby (eds)


G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Bloomsbury Academic
2013

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

2013

Johnson, Dominic (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)

Dominic Johnson (ed.)


Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Arnolfini Gallery Ltd
2007

Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...

Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration

2007

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Manchester University Press
2012

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...

Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture

2012

Johnson, Dominic

Dominic Johnson

Dominic Johnson


Theatre & the Visual
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...

Theatre & the Visual

2012

McAvinchey, Caoimhe

Caoimhe McAvinchey

Caoimhe McAvinchey


Theatre & Prison
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...

Theatre & Prison

2011

McKinnie, Michael (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)

Michael McKinnie (ed.)


Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Playwrights Canada Press
2007

Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...

Space and the Geographies of Theatre

2007

McKinnie, Michael

Michael McKinnie

Michael McKinnie


City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
University of Toronto Press
2007

In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...

City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City

2007

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Cambridge University Press
2006

Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...

Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems

2006

Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)

Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)


Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Routledge
2006

Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...

Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion

2006

Ridout, Nicholas

Nicholas Ridout

Nicholas Ridout


Theatre & Ethics
Palgrave Macmillan
2009

Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...

Theatre & Ethics

2009

Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)

Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)


Tragedy in Transition
Wiley-Blackwell
2007

Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...

Tragedy in Transition

2007

Silverstone, Catherine

Catherine Silverstone

Catherine Silverstone


Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Routledge
2011

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...

Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance

2011

Weaver, Lois

Lois Weaver (contributor)

Lois Weaver (contributor)


Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Routledge
1996

The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...

Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

1996

Welton, Martin

Martin Welton

Martin Welton


Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan
2011

In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...

Feeling Theatre

2011

Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle

Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari


Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Routledge
2012

Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...

Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations

2012

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
Oxford University Press
2000

How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...

Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96

2000

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell

John Barrell


The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Oxford University Press
2006

In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...

The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s

2006

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Polity Press
1992

The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...

The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault

1992

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
Verso
2007

In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...

Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War

2007

Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett (ed.)

Michèle Barrett (ed.)


Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Penguin
1993

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

1993

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Polity Press
1999

Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...

Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture

1999

Barrett, Michèle sedmodern

Michèle Barrett

Michèle Barrett


Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
Harcourt Brace
1979

This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...

Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing

1979

Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)

Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)


Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Stanford University Press
1992

Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...

Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates

1992

Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett

Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett


Star Trek: The Human Frontier
Polity Press
2000

Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...

Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern

2000

Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly

Julia Boffey (ed.)

Julia Boffey (ed.)


Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
Oxford University Press
2003

This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...

Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology

2003

Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)

Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)


Recording Medieval Lives
Shaun Tyas
2009

This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...

Recording Medieval Lives

2009

Boffey, Julia sedearly

Julia Boffey

Julia Boffey


Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
British Library
2012

This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...

Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530

2012

Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards

Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards


A New Index of Middle English Verse
British Library
2005

This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...

A New Index of Middle English Verse

2005

Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)

Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds))


Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
Oxford University Press
2002

This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...

Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn

2002

Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)

Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)


London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Brepols
1995

This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...

London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages

1995

Brady, Andrea sedearly

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...

English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning

2006

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Mutability
Seagull
2012

A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...

Mutability

2012

Brady, Andrea sedmodern

Andrea Brady

Andrea Brady


Wildfire
Krupskaya
2010

Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...

Wildfire

2010

Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)

Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)


The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Routledge
2009

Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

2009

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press
2006

This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...

The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Oxford University Press
2002

This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...

The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo

2002

Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine

Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine


Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
Cornell University Press
2003

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...

Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West

2003

Brotton, Jerry sedearly

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Macmillan
2006

Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...

The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection

2006

Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern

Jerry Brotton

Jerry Brotton


A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Allen Lane
2012

In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

2012

Colclough, David sedearly

David Colclough

David Colclough


Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Cambridge University Press
2005

This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...

Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England

2005

Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly

David Colclough (ed.)

David Colclough (ed.)


John Donne's Professional Lives
D. S. Brewer
2003

A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...

John Donne's Professional Lives

2003

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Edinburgh University Press
2012

This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...

The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise

2012

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


Postmodern Narrative Thoery
Palgrave MacMillan
2011

In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...

Postmodern Narrative Theory

2011

Currie, Mark sedmodern

Mark Currie

Mark Currie


About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Edinburgh University Press
2007

About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...

About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time

2007

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)

Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)


Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
Palgrave
2004

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Coffee House: A Cultural History
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
2004

For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...

The Coffee House: A Cultural History

2004

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The History of Gothic Fiction
Edinburgh University Press
2000

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...

The History of Gothic Fiction

2000

Ellis, Markman sedmiddle

Markman Ellis

Markman Ellis


The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Cambridge University Press
1996

By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...

The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

1996

Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)

Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)


Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Pickering and Chatto
2011

This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...

Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

2011

Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)

Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)


End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Manchester University Press
2011

This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...

End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945

2011

Gilmour, Rachael sedmodern

Rachael Gilmour

Rachael Gilmour


Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Palgrave
2006

The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...

Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa

2006

Halliday, Sam sedmiddle

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Palgrave
2007

This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...

Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity

2007

Halliday, Sam sedmodern

Sam Halliday

Sam Halliday


Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Edinburgh University Press
2013

Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...

Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts

2013

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Chicago University Press
2003

This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...

Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory

2003

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Continuum
2007

Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...

Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic

2007

Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle

Paul Hamilton

Paul Hamilton


Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Routledge
2003

Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...

Historicism: The New Critical Idiom

2003

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
British Library/University of Chicago Press
2008

In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...

Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600

2008

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)

Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee (eds)


South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 
Continuum
2011

This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...

South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947

2011

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)

Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin (eds)


Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Routledge
2012

Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...

Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing

2012

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)

Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Rehana Ahmed, Sumita Mukherjee, and Florian Stadtler (eds)


South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook 
Manchester University Press
2013

This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...

South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook

2013

Ahmed, Rehana

Rehana Ahmed (ed.)

Rehana Ahmed


Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
Macmillan Children's Books
2004

This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...

Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain

2004

Hiatt, Alfred sedearly

Alfred Hiatt

Alfred Hiatt


The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
British Library/University of Toronto Press
2004

In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...

The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England

2004

Hobson, Suzanne sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson

Suzanne Hobson


Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Palgrave
2011

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...

Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960

2011

Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)

Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)


The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Salt
2010

The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...

The Salt Companion to Mina Loy

2010

Howarth, Peter sedmodern

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Cambridge University Press
2005

This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...

British Poetry in the Age of Modernism

2005

Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)

Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)


The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Cambridge University Press
2011

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

2011

Howarth, Peter

Peter Howarth

Peter Howarth


The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
Cambridge University Press
2011

This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

2011

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Cambridge University Press
2012

In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...

Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel

2012

James, David sedmodern

David James

David James


Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
Continuum
2008

This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...

Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception

2008

James, David (ed.) sedmodern

David James (ed.)

David James (ed.)


The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Cambridge University Press
2011

Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...

The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction

2011

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Manchester University Press
2001

'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...

The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne

2001

Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)

Catherine Maxwell (ed.)


Algernon Charles Swinburne
J. M. Dent
1997

The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...

Algernon Charles Swinburne

1997

Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle

Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)

Markman Ellis (General Editor)


Richard Coulton, Ben Dew and Matthew Mauger (Volume Editors)


Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
Pickering and Chatto
2010

This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...

Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England

2010

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Swinburne
Northcote House
2006

This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...

Swinburne

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee
Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Broadview
2006

First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...

Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales

2006

Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell

Catherine Maxwell


Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Manchester University Press
2008

This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...

Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature

2008

Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)


Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Palgrave MacMillan
2006

This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...

Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics

2006

Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)

Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)


Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Modern Humanities research Association
2010

The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...

Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature

2010

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)

Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)


Sir Thomas Brown: The World Proposed
Oxford University Press
2008

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...

Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

2008

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Bee
Reaktion Books
2006

The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...

Bee

2006

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Cambridge University Press
2005

Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...

Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science

2005

Preston, Claire sedearly

Claire Preston

Claire Preston


Edith Wharton's Social Register
Macmillan/St Martin's
2000

Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...

Edith Wharton’s Social Register

2000

Price, Katy sedmodern

Katy Price

Katy Price


Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
University of Chicago Press
2012

Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...

Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

2012

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Routledge
2005

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...

News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

2005

Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)

Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)


Milton and the Terms of Liberty
D. S. Brewer
2002

Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty

2002

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
Cambridge University Press
2003

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...

Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain

2003

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Clarendon Press
1996

The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...

The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649

1996

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
Palgrave
2011

This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...

Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700

2011

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
Frank Cass
1999

This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...

News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain

1999

Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly

Joad Raymond (ed.)

Joad Raymond (ed.)


The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Oxford University Press
2011

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660

2011

Raymond, Joad sedearly

Joad Raymond

Joad Raymond


Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Oxford University Press
2010

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...

Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination

2010

Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)

Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)


Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Oxford University Press
2000

During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...

Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection

2000

Reid, Christopher sedmiddle

Christopher Reid

Christopher Reid


Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Oxford University Press
2012

Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...

Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800

2012

Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)

Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)


Oratory in Action
Manchester university Press
2004

Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...

Oratory in Action

2004

Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)

Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)


Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Blackwell
1999

This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...

Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology

1999

Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)

Margaret Reynolds (ed.)


George Eliot
Adam Bede
Penguin
2008

Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...

George Eliot, Adam Bede

2008

Monks, Aoife

Aoife Monks

Aoife Monks


The Actor in Costume
Palgrave Macmillan
2010

From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...

The Actor in Costume

2010

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho History
Palgrave
2003

In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...

The Sappho History

2003

Reynolds, Margaret sedmiddle sedmodern

Margaret Reynolds

Margaret Reynolds


The Sappho Companion
Chatto and Windus
2000

Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...

The Sappho Companion

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
Rivers Press Ltd
1973

Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...

The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope

1973

Rivers, Isabel sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
Leicester University Press
1982

Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England

1982

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Oxford University Press
2008

This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...

Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian

2008

Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)

Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)


Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Oxford University Press
2011

This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...

Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales

2011

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Cambridge University Press
2000 (paperback, 2005)

This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume

2000

Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Cambridge University Press
1991 (paperback, 2005)

In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...

Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley

1991

Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle

Isabel Rivers (ed.)

Isabel Rivers (ed.)


Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Leicester University Press
2001
[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]

The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...

Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays

2001

Rivers, Isabel sedearly

Isabel Rivers

Isabel Rivers


Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide
Routledge
1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...

Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)

1994

Barrell, John sedmiddle

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)

John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)


The Political Writings of William Fox
Trent Editions
2011

This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...

The Political Writings of William Fox

2011

Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)

Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)


Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Broadview
2012

Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...

Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism

2012

Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle

Matthew Rubery

Matthew Rubery


The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Oxford university Press
2009

The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...

The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News

2009

Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern

Matthew Rubery (ed.)

Matthew Rubery (ed.)


Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Routledge
2011

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...

Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies

2011

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


The Locations of George Lamming
Macmillan Caribbean
2007

The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...

The Locations of George Lamming

2007

Schwarz, Bill (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz (ed.)


West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Manchester University Press
2003

The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...

West Indian Intellectuals in Britain

2003

Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz (ed.)

Bill Schwarz


Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Institute for the Study of the Americas
2008

This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...

Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace

2008

Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)


James Baldwin: America and Beyond
University of Michigan Press
2011

This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...

James Baldwin: America and Beyond

2011

Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)

Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)


Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Fordham University Press
2010

In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...

Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates

2010

Schwarz, Bill sedmodern

Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz


The White Man's World
Oxford University Press
2011

The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...

The White Man's World

2011

Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern

Morag Shiach (ed.)

Morag Shiach (ed.)


The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Cambridge University Press
2007

In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel

2007

Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern

Morag Shiach

Morag Shiach


Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Cambridge University Press
2004

Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'
Ashgate
2004

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...

Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'

2004

Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)

Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)


Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Vallentine Mitchell
2000

This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...

Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society

2000

Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea

Nadia Valman

Nadia Valman


The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Cambridge University Press
2007

While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...

The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

2007

Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)

Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)


Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Ohio University Press
2010

Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...

Amy Levy: Critical Essays

2010

Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)

Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)


The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Palgrave
2009

Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...

The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa

2009

Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)

Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)


The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
Vallentine Mitchell
2004

This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...

The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914

2004

van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)

Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)


Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Wits University Press
2012

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...

Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

2012

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
Manchester University Press
2007

Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...

South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over

2007

van der Vlies, Andrew sedmodern

Andrew van der Vlies

Andrew van der Vlies


J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Continuum
2010

This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide

2010

Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)

James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)


Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Oxford University Press
2013

One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...

Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

2013

Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)

James Vigus


Coleridge's Afterlives
Palgrave MacMillan
2008

In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...

Coleridge's Afterlives

2008

Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)

James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)


Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Oxford University Press
2013

The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...

Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics

2013

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Modern Humanities Research Association
2010

As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...

Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics

2010

Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle

James Vigus (ed.)

James Vigus (ed.)


Informal Romanticism
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
2012

Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...

Informal Romanticism

2012

Vigus, James sedmiddle

James Vigus

James Vigus


Platonic Coleridge
Legenda
2009

James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...

Platonic Coleridge

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)


Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Palgrave
2005

This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...

Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850

2005

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
Harvard University Press
1983

This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...

Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century

1983

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips

Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips


On Kindness
Penguin
2009

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...

On Kindness

2009

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)

Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)


History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Palgrave
2012

Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...

History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past

2012

Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle

Barbara Taylor

Barbara Taylor


Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination
Cambridge University Press
2003

In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...

Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

2003

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