Essays & Studies – 2020: Literature and Ageing
New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.
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Essays & Studies 2018: English: Shared Futures
Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education.
Essays & Studies 2017: Textual Distortion
The notion of what it means to “distort” a text is here explored through a rich variety of individual case studies.
Essays & Studies 2016: Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.
Essays & Studies 2015: Writing Europe, 500-1450
Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages.
Essays & Studies 2014: War and Literature
Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.
Essays & Studies: 2013 British Literature and Print Culture
The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles.
Essays & Studies: 2012 Dickens and Modernity
Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens’ vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today.
Essays & Studies – 2019: Slow Scholarship
A powerful claim for the virtues of a more thoughtful and collegiate approach to the academy today.