This centennial history is, in essence, an account of the English profession and of literary and language criticism over a one hundred year period, from pre-Bradley, Dowden, Wilson Knight, F.R. Leavis and many others, to the post-structuralist, post-colonial world and beyond. This publication is aimed at people with a general interest in English Studies and is available for purchase.
Essays & Studies 2016: Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations ISBN: 9781843844457 On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer…
We are looking for colleagues to join our Higher Education Committee The English Association invites nominations from the subject community to fill three new positions on its HE Committee. We are looking for new members with experience of leadership in the discipline, and demonstrable commitment to English Studies; this includes leadership shown by…
Poetry By Heart is back with more competition options, expanded website resources for teaching and learning about poetry, and an exciting new partnership to bring more benefits to teachers and pupils in association with the English Association, The Poetry Society, The Poetry Archive and Homerton College. Individual and group recitation competition entries…
Upon the announcement of the winners of the 2019 Booker Prize The EA sends warm congratulations to Professor Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the 2019 Booker prize with Girl, Woman, Other. “Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of 12 very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families,…
The popularity of Gothic fictions, themes and films suggests that the genre is the norm as much as the dark underside of contemporary cultural production.
Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts, edited by Elaine Treharne, University of Leicester
The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by scholars from Britain and North America, offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus re-discovered writers.
Contemporary British Women Writers Edited by Emma Parker, University of Leicester ISBN: 1843840111 First published May 2004 £30.00 / US$60.0 Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women’s writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be represented within…