Tag: literature

Stories in Motion: How the Victorian Penny Dreadful Circulated Across Genres, Classes and Centuries

23 March 2026 Author Interviews

This is an author interview with Manon Burz-Labrande, author of Penny Dreadfuls: The Circulation Patterns of a Victorian Popular Genre Can you explain what penny dreadfuls are, for readers who might not be familiar with them? Penny dreadfuls were cheap, weekly story papers that were hugely popular in Britain during...

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Feminism, ‘Hum Gunahgar auraten’ [We Sinful Women] and the Act of Writing Resistance: Urdu Poetry’s Rebellious Voices

9 March 2026 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Amina Yaqin, author of Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing The award-winning British Pakistani film, Rahm ([Mercy] (2016), an Urdu adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, reflects misogyny in Pakistani society translating a dark tale of power, sex and injustice. Sin...

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On ‘Sexual Violence and Literary Art’

8 December 2025 Author Interviews

Adam Piette interviews Peter Robinson, author of Sexual Violence and Literary Art Peter Robinson is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading. He has published many volumes of poetry, translations, fictional prose and literary criticism, and been awarded the Cheltenham Prize, the John Florio Prize and...

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Cities Will Disappear

18 November 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Tony Fry, author of Disappearing Cities While the arrival of climate change is recognised by vast numbers of people globally, the scale and diversity of its impacts are not well comprehended. There is now a lot of data, and only a limited understanding, and...

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Meet the Author: Jessica A. Volz

5 November 2025 Meet the Author

Jessica A. Volz is a literary scholar, author, editor and translator (French to English) with international recognition. Over the past 15 years, she has built a diverse career spanning international relations, cultural heritage, journalism, the humanities, law, sustainability, multidisciplinary education and business development. Her book, Visuality in the Novels of...

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Byron’s engagement with Eastern European writers: Mickiewicz and Pushkin

22 September 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Jonathan Gross, author of The European Byron Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and Chameleon Although there have been many studies of Byron’s European impact, I consider the Eastern European reach of Byron. Mazepa, a painting by Vernet (‘Mazepa and the Wolves’, 1826), and another study, by a...

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Mourning the dissolution of the monasteries

6 July 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Lisa Hopkins, author of Bare Ruined Choirs: Sacred Spaces in Four Early Modern Plays When Shakespeare writes in Sonnet 73 of ‘Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang’, he was referring to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, begun in 1536 by King...

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The silent scene of reading: four moments of aesthetic experience

27 April 2025 Author Interviews

Nathan Wainstein interviews Bryan Counter, author of Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience Nathan Wainstein: At the outset of the book, you say that it ‘will approach aesthetic experience with a focus on life’. I find this interest in immediate or actual life, as opposed to the more curated encounters that...

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About the (Latin) American scene, present and future (im-)perfect: five critical conversations

2 April 2025 Author Interviews

This is an author interview by Fernando G Herrero, author of The (Latin) American Scene, Present and Future (Im-)Perfect.    What was the assembling idea behind this work? I was in the middle of the PhD at Duke University in the late-1990s after Wake Forest University, the University of Wales,...

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Finding oneself in art’s visionary moment

26 March 2025 Guest Post

This is a guest post by Sidney Homan, author of Art’s Visionary Moment I speak here only for myself, not out of modesty or even a fear of generalization, but because I have had increasing doubts about the value of my own scholarship—I stress, again, the “my own.” In point...

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