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Bardsley, Julia
Action Lectures: Dickie Beau
02/12/2015
Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).
In person
Testament
04/06/2014
Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).
Inside Medea's Lab
05/08/2014
Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).
Ridout, Nicholas
I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?
08/03/2015
Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.
Monks, Aoife
Freshwater
05/15/2012
Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)
Boucicault
01/01/2013
Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).
Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'
05/20/2011
Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)
Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'
02/13/2015
Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)
Interview with Fiona Shaw
09/28/2013
Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)
Monks
Speaker on Boucicault
04/01/2014
Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).
How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated
05/05/2015
Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).
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Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'
05/23/2012
Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).
Video in Performance
08/16/2013
Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).
Performing from Myth
03/18/2013
Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).
Davids, Nadia
Writing Home
07/19/2015
Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).
In Person
Out of Time & Place
Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).
Writing a New South Africa
02/26/2015
Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).
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Radio Interview
12/01/2014
Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).
11/01/2014
Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).
South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar
05/13/2014
Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).
Harvie, Jen
Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts
10/17/2015
Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).
New Books in Critical Theory
02/09/2015
Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).
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On Publicness
09/29/2014
Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).
Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic
15 Minutes with...
09/01/2014
Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).
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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle
BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895
Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).
On Air
Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W
08/15/2015
Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).
Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent
07/10/2015
Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).
Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews
10/30/2014
Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).
Knit Your Own Revolution
07/31/2014
Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).
Front Row
10/14/2014
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).
Season of Academic Fruitfulness
09/18/2014
Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).
Review of 'The Culinary Imagination
09/11/2014
Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).
08/29/2014
Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).
Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern
From shell shock to Shellac
07/01/2014
Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).
Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern
Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair
09/20/2012
Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).
Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain
09/19/2012
Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).
Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5
05/21/2014
Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).
McAvinchey, Caoimhe
'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'
07/03/2015
Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).
'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'
10/14/2015
Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).
Magic Me Collaboration
01/01/2015
Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).
Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts
03/4/2015
Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).
Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?
05/20/2014
Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).
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Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
03/28/2014
Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).
Brotton, Jerry sedearly
The Venice Ghetto
03/06/2016
Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).
The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book
10/13/2014
Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).
Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo
10/8/2014
Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).
My Shakespeare: Othello
10/20/2014
Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).
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In the Footsteps of St Peter
04/05/2015
Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).
My Shakespeare: King Lear
10/27/2014
Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).
Shakespeare and Islam
03/12/2014
Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).
Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas
02/21/2014
Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).
Boutcher, Warren sedmodern
Video Interview
02/16/2014
Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).
Warren Boutcher on his research
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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle
Book of the Week
02/17/2014
Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).
Stephen Nolan
02/15/2014
Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).
Today
02/12/2014
Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).
Robert Elms Show
02/05/2014
Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).
Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).
Moncrieff
Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).
Newshour
02/09/2014
Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).
Woman's Hour
02/06/2014
Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).
Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern
Stuart Hall Obituary
02/10/2014
Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).
Weaver, Lois
15 Minutes With...
1/29/2014
Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).
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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers
01/08/2014
Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).
Preston, Claire sedearly
A Brief History of Cider
06/10/2012
Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).
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Late Night Live
08/06/2013
Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).
The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe
04/17/2013
Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).
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Night Waves
01/13/2009
Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).
Interview
03/01/2009
Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).
04/01/2009
Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).
In Our Time
12/31/2009
Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).
03/10/2011
Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).
Ahnert, Ruth and Tamara Atkin sedearly
The Radio 4 Psalter
08/06/2014
Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).
Psalms Podcast
09/20/2013
Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).
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Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).
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Ahnert, Ruth sedearly
Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).
Watt Smith, Tiffany
The Human Copying Machine
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).
Powerful Emotions
06/01/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).
In print
From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'
01/17/2016
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).
How Language Influences Emotion
12/17/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).
Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions
01/11/2016
Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).
How To Let It All Out
10/02/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).
Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions
09/16/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).
The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality
01/01/2012
Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).
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The Science of Baby Laughter
11/15/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).
The Book of Human Emotions
09/21/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).
The History of Emotions
09/16/15
Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).
Touch and Emotion
07/01/15
Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).
11/03/2014
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).
On mimicking
09/22/13
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).
On air
09/14/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).
From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions
09/11/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).
The words that describe your indescribable feelings
01/25/2016
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).
Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?
01/27/2016
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).
BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine
11/02/2014
Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).
War Neuroses and Shell Shock
07/03/2014
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).
Boredom
04/07/2014
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).
In the Interest of Boredom
01/05/2014
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).
The Body Sphere - ABC Radio
09/22/2013
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).
Proms Plus Literary
08/11/2014
Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).
Saturday Review
08/16/2014
Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).
06/17/2014
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).
04/23/2014
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).
From Our Own Correspondent
03/22/2014
Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).
Poetry Idol
03/29/2014
Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).
The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives
02/23/2016
Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).
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Sew What?
Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).
The Hamlet Doctrine
10/21/2013
Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).
11/06/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).
09/26/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).
07/19/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).
Magic and Mischief from Africa
07/18/2013
Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).
Grains of Truth
03/06/2014
Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).
Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in
5/26/2013
Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).
Participation Rates: Now we are 50
7/25/2013
Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).
7/1/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).
4/16/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).
5/9/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle
Scents and Sensibility
04/06/2013
Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).
Sea Without Shore
05/03/2015
Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).
Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'
5/28/2013
Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).
Saloua Raouda Choucair
Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).
Front Row: Utopias in Fiction
01/21/2016
Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).
Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?
11/11/2013
Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).
09/05/2013
Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).
The Secret, Contentious History of Maps
11/30/2013
Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).
A History of the World in Twelve Maps
11/15/2013
Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).
The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay
06/01/2014
Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).
Perpetually Watch Again
06/02/2014
Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).
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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation
03/14/2013
Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).
Jerry Brotton
05/04/2013
Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).
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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography
05/07/2013
Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).
A History of the World in 12 Maps
11/21/2012
Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).
Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013
Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).
Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest
07/03/2012
Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).
Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).
Mapping Ulster
04/29/2013
Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).
Price, Katy sedmodern
Einstein's Fridge
02/03/2016
Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).
Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe
01/09/2013
Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).
Victorian Science Spectacular
09/01/2012
Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).
05/27/2013
Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).
Katy Price on her Research
Howarth, Peter sedmodern
The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry
Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).
On Nicholas Moore
09/24/2015
Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).
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Both Sides of the Footlights
09/09/2015
Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).
Electroplated Fish Knife
05/31/2015
Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).
Holy Apple Pie!
05/15/2014
Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).
05/21/2013
Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).
Royal Society Public Lecture
04/26/2013
Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).
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National Theatre
4/23/2013
Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).
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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson
4/17/2013
James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).
Poet in the City: Coleridge
3/25/2013
Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).
Times Higher Education Podcast
4/3/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).
Weekend Woman's Hour
01/02/2016
Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).
11/13/2012
Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).
06/02/2008
Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).
The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking
12/15/2012
Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).
Spark Radio, Radio-Canada
12/07/2012
Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).
Baroque in Britain
03/11/2013
Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).
02/22/2012
Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).
08/23/2009
Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).
10/09/2008
Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).
NPR: Talk of the Nation
11/22/2012
Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).
02/16/2009
Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).
12/11/2008
Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).
08/06/2008
Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).
Wired Magazine
08/05/2013
Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).
The Guardian
10/23/2012
Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).
Hay Festival
06/01/2013
Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).
Let's take maps back from Google
Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).
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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library
09/17/2009
Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).
10/18/2012
Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).
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Poetry Performance
06/28/2014
Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)
‘The Exponential Horn’
06/06/2014
Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)
Podcast
10/08/2012
Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.
09/03/2012
Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).
05/03/2011
Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).
04/19/2010
Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).
Meet the Author
08/24/2012
Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).
05/16/2012
Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).
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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London
04/04/2014
Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).
Roundtable Discussion
02/17/2011
Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).
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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'
10/22/2013
Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).
In Conversation
05/30/2013
Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).
Victorian Journalists in London's East End
05/19/2012
Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).
SW11 Literary Festival
09/20/2010
Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).
Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM
03/05/2012
Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).
Audio Guide to the East End
Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).
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Fighting for a Better Past
10/10/2011
Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).
Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared
05/27/2011
Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).
The One Show
12/20/2011
Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).
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Who Do You Think You Are?
03/02/2009
Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).
London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day
10/14/2006
Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).
News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century
10/29/2008
Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).
Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London
10/07/2008
Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).
Coffee, Please
01/01/2010
Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).
La Belle Juive
05/01/2007
Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).
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Press TV
10/09/2011
Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).
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Making History
10/04/2011
Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).
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The National Theatre
04/01/2012
Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).
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Other Room
03/01/2012
Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).
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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes
01/17/2012
Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).
Thinking Allowed
12/14/2011
Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).
Free Thinking Festival Debate
12/05/2011
Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).
Resonance FM
11/02/2011
Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).
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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair
04/16/2010
Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).
Writing the Now
09/01/2010
Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.
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Open Book
09/11/2011
Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).
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02/12/2013
Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).
07/13/2011
Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).
The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain
12/09/2015
Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).
The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century
03/27/2015
Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).
Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England
06/05/2014
Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).
Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?
Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).
How Britain Fell in Love with Tea
Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).
10/25/2010
Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).
Audiobooks before Audiobooks
08/19/2013
Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).
Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook
04/07/2015
Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).
12/15/2011
Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).
Great Expectations
11/01/2010
Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).
Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession
05/01/2010
Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.
02/01/2010
Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).
Babble Machine
11/29/2012
Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)
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Inside Out Festival
10/26/2012
Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).
Walking Tours
10/26/2015
Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.
05/13/2015
Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).
Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).
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Discussion
10/05/2012
David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).
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Taunton Literary Festival
09/28/2012
Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.
Ilkley Literary Festival
10/06/2012
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Cape Town's Open Book Festival
09/21/2012
Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).
HowTheLightGetsIn
06/07/2012
Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.
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Keynote Lecture
04/04/2013
Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).
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Joseph Williams and his Journal
09/25/2004
Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).
Vanity Fair and the Celestial City
05/23/2007
Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).
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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford
05/01/2012
Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).
LSE Literary Festival
03/02/2012
Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).
The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival
11/21/2011
Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).
The End of Empire and the English Novel
Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).
03/28/2010
Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).
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Cultures of Journalism
08/28/2004
Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).
01/06/2006
Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).
Word of Mouth
12/24/2005
Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).
Blood on Our Hands
02/01/2005
Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).
Killer Wave
04/01/2005
Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).
Radio Scotland - Angels
01/01/2004
Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).
The Shock of the Old
07/23/2013
Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).
Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls
05/22/2012
Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).
From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality
08/18/2011
Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).
The Humanities and Money
06/16/2011
Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).
Triggered
06/13/2011
‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).
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11/07/2013
Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).
Faulks on Fiction
06/24/2011
Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).
Robert Browning and the Pied Piper
04/16/2012
Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).
04/15/2008
Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).
08/19/2008
Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).
The Essay: Sappho
06/03/2008
Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).
08/12/2008
Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).
A Portrait of Ethel Smyth
03/29/2008
Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).
Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned
07/10/2012
Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).
Le Nozze di Figaro
07/10/2013
Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).
Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons
08/02/2011
Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).
Interpreting Sappho
08/17/2010
Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).
Today Programme: George Orwell
01/21/2013
Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).
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The Literary Life of the Cello
07/20/2011
Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).
Great Lives: Sappho
08/10/2010
Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'
05/20/2012
Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'
Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'
Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'
Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'
Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'
05/18/2013
Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'
06/08/2013
Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'
05/19/2013
Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'
06/29/2013
Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).
Twenty Minutes
05/24/2013
Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).
Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).
Revealing Anne Lister
06/09/2010
Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).
Adventures in Poetry
04/28/2012
Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).
02/15/2011
Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).
06/16/2009
Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).
Off the Page
05/29/2008
Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).
05/16/2013
Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).
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Brave New World
04/09/2009
Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).
Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
10/23/2008
To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).
Degree of Famousness etc.
03/21/2011
Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).
In Print
Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor
01/10/2011
Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).
Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth
09/27/2010
Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).
Maps will always have mileage
04/14/2010
Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).
Ordnance Survey Blog
09/25/2012
Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).
Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).
12/19/2012
Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).
The Canton Tea Company Blog
07/06/2011
Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).
Rubery, Matt sedmiddle
01/22/2013
Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).
A Few Don'ts
12/02/2012
Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).
Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town
04/16/2014
Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).
Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims
08/18/2014
Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).
11/25/2009
Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).
Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo
Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)
9/8/2007
Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).
Andrea Brady Watch/Listen/Read Now In Person
5/1/2007
Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).
Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture
6/1/2006
Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).
Sunday Feature: Courting the East
7/22/2007
Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).
Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist
Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).
Performance Pod 211
08/09/2013
Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).
Online Lecture
02/25/2011
Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).
Jen Harvie Watch/Listen/Read Now In Person
The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre
04/05/2013
Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).
Heritage, Paul
Jornal da Globo
12/22/2008
A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).
Start the Week
12/01/2008
Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).
Johnson, Dominic
Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson
09/20/2014
Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).
Explosiv Magazin
05/08/2009
Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).
HRT News
05/17/2009
Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).
Weekend
10/27/2012
Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).
Transmission
01/01/2009
Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).
Dominic Johnson Watch/Listen/Read Now In Person
WGXC Afternoon Show
Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).
Escolme, Bridget
A Tarde
02/01/2013
Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).
'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'
Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).
'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'
10/17/2012
Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).
Silverstone, Catherine
So you want to study acting?
09/13/2008
Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).
Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')
04/23/2012
Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).
South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence
03/02/2010
Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).
Imagining South Africa
As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).
Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team
04/21/2010
Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).
Welton, Martin
Flow
03/09/2015
Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).
No Lander
10/28/2015
Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).
Elixir Project Blog
Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)
Uncommon Perspectives
Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)
Read Now (Registered Subscribers) Watch/Listen/Read Now In Print
'Setting the Scene'
10/06/2015
Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).
08/1/2009
Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).
08/1/2013
Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).
07/1/2012
Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).
Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation
Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).
Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts
01/13/2008
Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).
Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change
11/04/2009
Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).
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Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.
Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.
“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’
06/01/2010
Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).
‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference
12/01/2009
Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).
Private Romeo
10/01/2011
Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).
Unrestrained Indulgence
12/04/2010
Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).
Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld
11/05/2010
Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).
Discussion with Marisa Carnesky
10/29/2010
Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).
Discussions with Mark Ravenhill
2/13/2010
Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).
Our Bookshelf contains a large proportion of the books produced by our staff. These include monographs, edited collections, translations, editions, and a range of creative works.
You can read more information about many of the books in the Bookshelf by clicking on the jackets.
Rehana Ahmed
Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and MulticulturalismManchester University Press2015
This book examines contemporary literary representations of Muslims by British writers of South Asian Muslim descent - including Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali and Nadeem Aslam - to explore the contribution they make to urgent questions about multicultural politics and the place of Muslims within Britain. Read more...
Writing British Muslims: Religion, Class and Multiculturalism
2015
Boutcher, Warren sedearly
Warren Boutcher
The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume OneOxford University Press2016
This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Read more...
The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume One: The Patron-Author
2016
The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe: Volume TwoOxford University Press2016
This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. Read more...
The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, Volume Two: The Reader-Writer
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
Clemit, Pamela sedmiddle
Pamela Clemit (ed.)
William Godwin, St Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth CenturyPickering & Chatto1992
In "St Leon" the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the face of momentous historical change. Set during the Protestant Reformation, the novel tells the harrowing tale of an exiled French aristocrat who is given the secrets of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life. Read more...
William Godwin, 'St Leon'
1992
Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple StoryPenguin1996
A Simple Story by the actress, playwright and novelist Elizabeth Inchbald has remained enduringly popular and almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1791. Read more...
Elizabeth Inchbald, 'A Simple Story'
1996
Pamela Clemit
The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary ShelleyThe Clarendon Press2001
The Godwinian Novel is a pioneering analysis of the school of fiction inaugurated by William Godwin, and developed in the works of his principal followers, Charles Brockden Brown and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Read more...
The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley
1993 (repr. 2001)
Pamela Clemit and Gina Luria Walker (eds)
William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of WomanBroadview2001
Written during the weeks following Wollstonecraft's early death, Memoirs provides an interpretation of the relations between Wollstonecraft's writings and her personal history, a candid account of her various relationships, and a vindication of her egalitarian intimacy with Godwin. Read more...
William Godwin, 'Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman'
2001
William Godwin, Caleb WilliamsOxford University Press2009
Caleb Williams is a psychological thriller and suspenseful tale of detection and pursuit. Read more...
William Godwin, 'Caleb Williams'
2009
The Letters of William Godwin: Volume 1: 1778-1797Oxford University Press2011
Publishes for the first time all the letters of this significant social thinker, novelist, and philosopher of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Read more...
The Letters of William Godwin, Volume I: 1778-1797
2011
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790sCambridge University Press2011
This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. Read more...
The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s
The Letters of William Godwin: Volume II: 1798-1805Oxford University Press2014
The Letters of William Godwin, Volume II: 1798-1805
2014
Duff, David sedmiddle
David Duff
Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre
1994
Modern Genre Theory
1999
David Duff and Catherine Jones (eds)
Scotland, Ireland, and the Romantic Aesthetic
2007
Romanticism and the Uses of Genre
2013
McBean, Sam sedmodern
Sam McBean
Feminism's Queer TemporalitiesRoutledge2015
Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. Read more...
Feminism's Queer Temporalities
Claire Preston
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century EnglandOxford University Press2016
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century English Literature considers the literary textures of science writing - its rhetorical figures, neologisms, its uses of parody, romance, and various kinds of verse. Read more...
The Poetics of Scientific Investigation in Seventeenth-Century England
Tessa Whitehouse
The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800Oxford University Press2015
Religious dissenters and their literary and social heritage are the principal subjects of this book. At its heart is a group of English men whose activities were local, transcontinental and circum-Atlantic. Drawing on letters, lecture notes, manuscript accounts of academies, and a range of printed texts and paratexts The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800 explores the connections between dissent, education, and publishing in the eighteenth century. Read more...
The Textual Culture of English Protestant Dissent 1720-1800
Joad Raymond (ed.)
An Anthology of the Newsbooks of Revolutionary England, 1641-1660
1993
Julia Bardsley
'u' see the image of her 'i'Pop Bard Projects2014
For the first time Julia Bardsley's compelling body of photographic work is brought together in a publication, including essays by Dominic Johnson, Catherine Silverstone and Andrew Poppy. Read more...
'u' see the image of her 'i'
Nadia Davids
An Imperfect BlessingUmuzi2014
It is 1993. South Africa is on the brink of total transformation and in Walmer Estate, a busy suburb on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, fourteen-year-old Alia Dawood is about to undergo a transformation of her own. Read more...
An Imperfect Blessing
Ellis, Markman, Coulton, Richard, and Mauger, Matthew sedmiddle
Markman Ellis, Richard Coulton, and Matthew Mauger
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the WorldReaktion Books2015
Empire of Tea is based on extensive original research, providing a rich cultural history that explores how the British ‘way of tea’ became the norm across the Anglophone world. Read more...
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World
Inchley, Maggie
Maggie Inchley
Voice and New Writing, 1997-2007: Articulating the DemosPalgrave Macmillan2015
Voice and New Writing, 1997–2007 uses the voice as a focus for critical enquiry. It explores new writing theatres' claims to 'find' and to represent previously marginalised voices during Tony Blair's decade as Prime Minister. Read more...
Voice and New Writing, Articulating the Demos
James, David sedmodern
David James (ed.)
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945Cambridge University Press2016
This Companion offers a compelling engagement with British fiction from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Read more...
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945
Dominic Johnson
The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance ArtPalgrave Macmillan2015
Across a series of twelve in-depth interviews with a diverse range of major artists, Dominic Johnson presents a new oral history of performance art. Read more...
The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art
Watt-Smith, Tiffany
Tiffany Watt-Smith
The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to WanderlustProfile Books2015
From anger to wanderlust, each entertaining and informative alphabetical entry reveals the surprising connections and fascinating facts behind our emotional lives. Read more...
The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust
Weaver, Harvie
Lois Weaver and Jen Harvie (eds)
The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois WeaverIntellect2015
Lois Weaver is one of the true pioneers in feminist and lesbian performance. The Only Way Home Is Through the Show explores her collaborative work with Split Britches and Spiderwoman as well as her solo projects, performance interventions, and work as a facilitator, teacher, and as Tammy WhyNot. Read more...
The Only Way Home is Through the Show: Performance Work of Lois Weaver
Caoimhe McAvinchey and Sue Mayo
Report: 'Wild, Wild Women: Ten Years of Intergenerational Arts Practice at The Women's Library'
Caoimhe McAvinchey
Report: 'Making an Invitation: Creative Engagement with the LIFT Living Archive'
2010
Report: 'Our Generations: Report on a Three Year Programme on Intergenerational Arts Projects in Tower Hamlets'
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and ExplainedDorling Kindersley2014
In Great Maps, author and historian Jerry Brotton tells the hidden story behind more than 60 of the most significant maps from around the world, picking out key features, stories, and techniques in rich visual detail to reveal the inner meaning buried within the landscape. Read more...
Great Maps: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained
Aoife Monks and Ali Maclaurin
Readings in CostumePalgrave Macmillan2014
Focussing on costume in performance, this reader brings together key texts, case studies and interviews. Read more...
Readings in Costume
Harvie, Jen, and Paul Allain
Jen Harvie and Paul Allain
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, second editionRoutledge2014
This fully updated second edition contains three easy to use alphabetized sections including over 120 revised entries on topics and people ranging from performance artist Ron Athey, to directors Vsevold Meyerhold and Robert Wilson, megamusicals , postdramatic theatre and documentation. Read more...
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance, 2nd edn
Silverstone, Catherine, and Fintan Walsh (eds)
Catherine Silverstone and Fintan Walsh (eds)
Performance Research: On AffirmationRoutledge2014
This special issue of Performance Research invites contributions that consider relationships between affirmation and performance. Read more...
Performance Research: On Affirmation
Silverstone, Catherine (ed.)
Catherine Silverstone (ed.)
Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’John Hopkins University Press2014 (forthcoming)
The Fall 2014 issue of Shakespeare Bulletin is dedicated to Derek Jarman and ‘the Renaissance.’ Read more...
Shakespeare Bulletin: Derek Jarman and the ‘Renaissance’
On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell ShockOxford University Press2014
On Flinching focuses on moments in which scientific observers flinched from sudden noises, winced at the sight of an animal's pain or cringed when he was caught looking, as ways to consider a distinctive motif of passionate and gestured looking in the laboratory and beyond. Read more...
On Flinching: Theatricality and Scientific Looking from Darwin to Shell Shock
Barbara Taylor
The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our TimesPenguin2014
The Last Asylum is Barbara Taylor's journey through mental illness and the psychiatric health care system. Read more...
The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times
Jen Harvie and Keren Zaiontz
Fair Play: Art, Performance and NeoliberalismPalgrave Macmillan2013
Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism explores a range of questions relating to contemporary art and performance through the work of important contemporary artists and organizations including Marcus Coates, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Michael Landy, Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread, Lone Twin, Punchdrunk, Tate Modern and the National Theatre. Read more...
Contemporary Theatre Review: The Cultural Politics of London 2012
Caoimhe McAvinchey (ed.)
Performance and Community: Commentary and Case StudiesBloomsbury Publishing2013
Performance practice in community settings is an established part of the cultural landscape. However, this practice is frequently viewed as functional: an intervention that seeks to solve, educate or heal. Performance and Community presents an alternative vision, focussing, instead, on the aesthetic and political ambitions of artists, organisations and cultural producers committed to this area. Read more...
Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies
Hamilton, Paul sedmiddle
Paul Hamilton
Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary PoliticsOxford University Press2013
Realpoetik compares the writings of key German, French, and Italian Romantics, with an eye to their differences from British Romanticism. Read more...
Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics
David Colclough (ed.)
The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume IIIOxford University Press2103; forthcoming
The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, Volume III
Macdonald, Molly sedmodern
Molly Macdonald
Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"Routledge2013
Both Hegel's philosophy and psychoanalytic theory have profoundly influenced contemporary thought, but they are traditionally seen to work in separate rather than intersecting universes. This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and brings it into conversation with the work of two of the best-known contemporary psychoanalysts, Christopher Bollas and André Green. Read more...
Hegel and Psychoanalysis: A New Interpretation of "Phenomenology of Spirit"
Marsh, Huw sedmodern
Huw Marsh
Beryl BainbridgeNorthcote House Publishers Ltd2014
This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Read more...
Beryl Bainbridge
Raymond, Joad (ed.) sedearly
Joad Raymond, Roeland Harms, and Jeroen Salman (eds)
Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820Brill2013
This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Read more...
Not Dead Things: The Dissemination of Popular Print in England and Wales, Italy, and the Low Countries, 1500-1820
Tamara Atkin
The Drama of Reform: Theology and TheatricalityBrepols Publishers2013
The Drama of Reform examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. Read more...
The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553
Ruth Ahnert
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth CenturyCambridge University Press2013
Examining works by some of the most famous prisoners from the early modern period including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt, Ruth Ahnert presents the first major study of prison literature dating from this era. She argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere. Read more...
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Jen Harvie
Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism
Nicholas Ridout
Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and LoveUniversity of Michigan Press2013
Passionate Amateurs tells a new story about modern theater: the story of a romantic attachment to theater’s potential to produce surprising experiences of human community. Read more...
Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love
Johnson, Dominic (ed.)
Dominic Johnson (ed.)
Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron AtheyUniversity of Chicago Press2013
This landmark publication includes Athey’s own writings, commissioned essays by maverick artists and leading academics, and full-color images of Athey’s art and performances since the early 1980s. Read more...
Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
Bridget Escolme
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's SlavesArden Shakespeare2013; forthcoming
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. Read more...
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage: Passion's Slaves
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards (eds) sedearly
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (eds)
A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English PoetryD.S. Brewer2013
This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Read more...
A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry
Valman, Nadia, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds) sedmiddle
Nadia Valman, Jonathan M. Hess, and Maurice Samuels (eds)
Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A ReaderPrinceton University Press2013
Offering unique insights into the hopes and fears of Jews experiencing the dramatic impact of modernity, the literature collected in this book will provide compelling reading for all those interested in modern Jewish history and culture, whether general readers, students, or scholars. Read more...
Nineteenth Century Jewish Literature: A Reader
Currie, Mark sedmodern
Mark Currie
The Invention of DeconstructionPalgrave MacMillan2013
This book offers an account of the invention and reinvention of deconstruction in literary studies and the humanities more generally. Focusing on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man, it argues that the early impact of deconstruction was connected to its perceived assault upon truth. Read more...
The Invention of Deconstruction
Maxwell, Catherine, and Stefano Evangelista (eds) sedmiddle
Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista (eds)
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial LaureateManchester University Press2013
This collection of eleven new essays by leading international scholars offers a thorough revaluation of Algernon Charles Swinburne, a fascinating and complex figure. The essays in this collection reassess Swinburne’s work and reconstruct his vital and often provocative contribution to the Victorian cultural debate. Read more...
Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate
James, David, and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds) sedmodern
David James and Andrzej Gasiorek (eds)
Fiction since 2000: Postmillenial Commitments
2012
James, David, and Jeannette Baxter (eds) sedmodern
David James and Jeannette Baxter (eds)
Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical PerspectivesContinuum T & T Clark2014
This critical guide surveys a wide range of current critical perspectives on Levy's work. With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. Read more...
Andrea Levy: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Barrell, John sedmiddle
John Barrell
Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'University of Wales Press2013
Edward Pugh of Ruthin 1763–1813 is the first book to consider the work of this nearly forgotten Welsh artist and writer in detail, linking the history of art in Wales with the social history of the country. Read more...
Edward Pugh of Ruthin, 1763-1813: 'A Native Artist'
Boffey, Julia, and Janet Cowen (eds) sedearly
Julia Boffey and Janet Cowen (eds)
Chaucer and Fifteenth-Century Poetry
1991
Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UKRoutledge2013
Through essays by leading scholars and critical interviews with influential artists in the sector, Critical Live Art addresses the historical and cultural specificity of contemporary experimental performance, and explores the diversity of practices that are carried out, programmed, read or taught as Live Art. Read more...
Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK
At Her Feet: A Play
Cissie: A Play
Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, SelfRoutledge2005
This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. Read more...
Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self
2005
Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical LifePalgrave Macmillan2006
This Shakespeare Handbook offers a stimulating and accessible guide to Antony and Cleopatra as theatre. It focuses on the challenges of bringing the notorious lovers and their world to the stage, and explores both recent and Renaissance theatrical approaches. Read more...
Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life
2006
Escolme, Bridget, and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)
Bridget Escolme and Stuart Hampton-Reeves (eds)
Shakespeare & the Making of TheatrePalgrave Macmillan2012
A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Read more...
Shakespeare & the Making of Theatre
Harvie, Jen, and Dan Rebellato (eds)
Jen Harvie and Dan Rebellato (eds)
'Globalisation and Theatre', a special issue of 'Contemporary Theatre Review'
Theatre & the CityPalgrave Macmillan2009
Theatre& the City explores how relationships between theatre, performance and the city affect social power dynamics, ideologies and people's sense of identity. Read more...
Theatre & the City
Staging the UKManchester University Press2005
‘Staging the UK' examines some of the most important performance in Britain from the mid-1980s into the new millennium. Read more...
Staging the UK
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and PerformanceRoutledge2006
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance provides an informative and engaging introduction to the significant people, events, concepts and practices that have defined the complementary fields of theatre and performance studies. Read more...
The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance
Harvie, Jen, and Andy Lavender (eds)
Jen Harvie and Andy Lavender (eds)
Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal ProcessesManchester University Press2010
Making contemporary theatre reveals how some of the most significant international contemporary theatre is actually made. Read more...
Making Contemporary Theatre: International Rehearsal Processes
Paul Heritage
Encounters Beyond Text
Heritage, Paul and Colin Teevan
Paul Heritage and Colin Teevan
Amazônia
2008
Intense Dreams: Reflections on Brazilian Culture and Performance
Franko B, Blinded by LoveDamiani2007
The works documented in Blinded by Love reflect Franko B’s recent decision to abandon the blood practice and turn his research towards new strategies. Read more...
Franko B, Blinded by Love
Ingleby, Matthew
Matthew Ingleby and Matthew Beaumont (eds) sedmiddle
G. K. Chesterton, London and ModernityBloomsbury Academic2013
G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. Read more...
G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity
Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, CollaborationArnolfini Gallery Ltd2007
Encounters brings together exciting new critical essays on Vason’s collaborative images by Rebecca Schneider, Tracey Warr and Kate Random Love together with specially commissioned writings on the collaborative process by a range of performance practitioners. Read more...
Manuel Vason, Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration
Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual CultureManchester University Press2012
Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith’s work offers critical strategies for rethinking art’s histories after 1960. Read more...
Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture
Theatre & the VisualPalgrave Macmillan2012
Theatre & the Visual argues that theatre studies' preoccupation with problems arising from textual analysis has compromised a fuller, political consideration of the visual. Read more...
Theatre & the Visual
Theatre & PrisonPalgrave Macmillan2011
Theatre and Prison investigates how theatre-makers stage critical questions about the use of prison in society. Read more...
Theatre & Prison
McKinnie, Michael (ed.)
Michael McKinnie (ed.)
Space and the Geographies of TheatrePlaywrights Canada Press2007
Volume 9 in the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English. Read more...
Space and the Geographies of Theatre
Michael McKinnie
City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global CityUniversity of Toronto Press2007
In every major city, there exists a complex exchange between urban space and the institution of the theatre. City Stages is an interdisciplinary and materialist analysis of this relationship as it has existed in Toronto since 1967. Read more...
City Stages: Theatre and Urban Space in a Global City
Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical ProblemsCambridge University Press2006
Why do actors get stage fright? What is so embarrassing about joining in? Why not work with animals and children, and why is it so hard not to collapse into helpless laughter when things go wrong? Nicholas Ridout attempts to explain the relationship between these apparently unwanted and anomalous phenomena and the wider social and political meanings of the modern theatre. Read more...
Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems
Ridout, Nicholas, and Joe Kelleher (eds)
Nicholas Ridout and Joe Kelleher (eds)
Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical CompanionRoutledge2006
Through specific examples, case studies and essays by specialist writers, academics, and a new generation of theatre researchers, this collection of specially commissioned essays looks at current theatre practices across Europe. Read more...
Contemporary Theatres in Europe: A Critical Companion
Theatre & EthicsPalgrave Macmillan2009
Theatre & Ethics is about how to act. It explores theatre as a practice through which we experiment with ethical action. Read more...
Theatre & Ethics
Silverstone, Catherine, and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)
Catherine Silverstone and Sarah Annes Brown (eds)
Tragedy in TransitionWiley-Blackwell2007
Tragedy in Transition is an innovative and exciting introduction to the theory and practice of tragedy. Read more...
Tragedy in Transition
Catherine Silverstone
Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary PerformanceRoutledge2011
Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. Read more...
Shakespeare, Trauma, and Contemporary Performance
Lois Weaver (contributor)
Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist PerformanceRoutledge1996
The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this outstanding troupe. Read more...
Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance
Martin Welton
Feeling TheatrePalgrave Macmillan2011
In idiomatic English 'feel', as both verb ('to feel...') and noun ('the feel of...'), describes an affective continuum whose terms range from the particularity of various emotional states to an indistinct movement on the threshold of language. Feeling Theatre explores the range of this continuum from a variety of positions both inside and outside of the theatre itself. Read more...
Feeling Theatre
Bari, Shahidha K. sedmiddle
Shahidha Bari
Keats and Philosophy: The Life of SensationsRoutledge2012
Exploring Keats’s own Romantic accounts of feeling and thinking, this study draws a connection between poetry and the phenomenological branches of modern philosophy. The study takes Keats’s poetic evocation of touching hands, wandering feet, beating hearts and breathing bodies as a descriptive elaboration of consciousness and a phenomenological account of experience. Read more...
Keats and Philosophy: The Life of Sensations
Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96Oxford University Press2000
How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George III and 'imagining' it, in the legal sense of 'intending' or 'designing'? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. Read more...
Imagining the King's Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-96
2000
The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790sOxford University Press2006
In this brilliant, engagingly written, and profusely illustrated book, John Barrell, well-known for his studies of the history, literature, and art of the period, argues that the conflict between the ancien regime in Britain and the emerging democratic movement was so fundamental that it could not be contained within what had previously been thought of as the 'normal' arena of politics. Read more...
The Spirit of Despotism: Invasions of Privacy in the 1790s
Michèle Barrett
The Politics of Truth: From Marx to FoucaultPolity Press1992
The concept of ideology - traditionally one of Marxism's most persuasive ideas - has recently been subjected to devastating criticism. Michèle Barrett shows that Marx's own writings offer a confusing array of possible approaches to 'ideology', which the classical Marxist tradition consolidated as 'mystification that serves class interests'. Read more...
The Politics of Truth: From Marx to Foucault
Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World WarVerso2007
In this powerful new book, Michèle Barrett uncovers the lives of five ordinary soldiers who endured the “war to end all wars,” and how they dealt with its horrors, both at the front and after the war’s end. Read more...
Barrett, Michèle (ed.) sedmodern
Michèle Barrett (ed.)
Virginia WoolfA Room of One's Own and Three GuineasPenguin1993
In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. Read more...
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and CulturePolity Press1999
Imagination in Theory contains both new and published work focusing on Barrett's long-standing interest in cultural questions, and shows how this informs her analysis of current developments in social and feminist theory. Read more...
Imagination in Theory: Essays on Writing and Culture
Virginia Woolf: Women and WritingHarcourt Brace1979
This collection of essays and other writings does justice to Virginia Woolf's reputation as a major essayist and critic, it offers appraisals of Aphra Behn, Charlotte Bronte and Katherine Mansfield amongst others. Read more...
Virginia Woolf: Women and Writing
1979
Barrett, Michèle, and Anne Phillips (eds) sedmodern
Michèle Barrett and Anne Phillips (eds)
Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist DebatesStanford University Press1992
Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates
Barrett, Michèle, and Duncan Barrett
Michèle Barrett and Duncan Barrett
Star Trek: The Human FrontierPolity Press2000
Witten for both the true Trekker and the complete novice, Star Trek: The Human Frontier is that rare work of cultural studies, informed by the knowledge of literature, social thought, and popular culture. Read more...
Star Trek: The Human Frontier sedmodern
Boffey, Julia (ed.) sedearly
Julia Boffey (ed.)
Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An AnthologyOxford University Press2003
This anthology provides new editions of five fifteenth-century English poems framed as dreams, and demonstrates the energy with which this influential medieval form was explored by post-Chaucerian writers. Read more...
Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology
2003
Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis (eds sedearly)
Julia Boffey and Virginia Davis (eds)
Recording Medieval LivesShaun Tyas2009
This volume publishes the proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, which explored the variety of forms in which medieval lives were recorded, and some of the many considerations which determined how such records were prompted or shaped. Read more...
Recording Medieval Lives
Julia Boffey
Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530British Library2012
This study explores the continuing relationship between manuscript and printed material in London after Caxton’s establishment of a printing business at Westminster in 1476, and the different ways in which people adapted to the availability of new technology. Read more...
Manuscript and Print in London, c. 1475-1530
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards sedearly
Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards
A New Index of Middle English VerseBritish Library2005
This book was originally published in 1943. It has been replaced by this new index, offering a first-line listing of all surviving verse recorded between c.1150 and 1500. Read more...
A New Index of Middle English Verse
Boffey, Julia, J. B. Trapp, and Douglas Gray (eds) sedearly
Julia Boffey, J. B. Trapp and Douglas Gray (eds)
Medieval English Literature, 2nd ednOxford University Press2002
This succinct and authoritative anthology of medieval English literature is the first volume of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Second Edition. Emphasizing texts that give students first-hand access to significant aspects of the Middle Ages, this collection reveals the vast riches of medieval literature in English, from Anglo-Saxon times to the fifteenth century. Read more...
Medieval English Literature, 2nd edn
2002
Boffey, Julia, and Pamela King (eds) sedearly
Julia Boffey and Pamela King (eds)
London and Europe in the Later Middle AgesBrepols1995
This publication covers many aspects of London's history and culture from the twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. Read more...
London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages
1995
Brady, Andrea sedearly
English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in MourningPalgrave MacMillan2006
This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. Read more...
English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century: Laws in Mourning
Brady, Andrea sedmodern
MutabilitySeagull2012
A chronicle of motherhood and infancy, Brady’s Mutability marks the excesses of attention and love in this unique relationship, the gradual unfurling of one person into two. Read more...
Mutability
WildfireKrupskaya2010
Wildfire is a verse essay. It is trying to persuade us, to recognize that certain catastrophes and felicities are not inevitable. Read more...
Wildfire
Brady, Andrea, and Emily Butterworth (eds) sedearly
Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth (eds)
The Uses of the Future in Early Modern EuropeRoutledge2009
Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. Read more...
The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
The Renaissance: A Very Short IntroductionOxford University Press2006
This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale, alongside a darker side of religion, intolerance, slavery, and massive inequality of wealth and status. Read more...
The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to MichelangeloOxford University Press2002
This is a timely and controvesial book that explodes the myth of the European Renaissance as a founding moment of cultural superiority: it was a time when East and West encountered each other as equals. Read more...
The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo
Brotton, Jerry, and Lisa Jardine sedearly
Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine
Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and WestCornell University Press2003
In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Read more...
Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East and West
The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art CollectionMacmillan2006
Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton’s colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I’s art collection. Read more...
The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
Brotton, Jerry sedearly sedmiddle sedmodern
A History of the World in Twelve MapsAllen Lane2012
In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world. Read more...
David Colclough
Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart EnglandCambridge University Press2005
This book discusses a central chapter in the history of free speech in the Western world. The nature and limits of freedom of speech prompted sophisticated debate in a wide range of areas in the early seventeenth century; it was one of the 'liberties of the subject' fought for by individuals and groups across the political landscape. David Colclough argues that freedom of speech was considered to be a significant civic virtue during this period. Read more...
Freedom of Speech in Early Stuart England
Colclough, David (ed.) sedearly
John Donne's Professional LivesD. S. Brewer2003
A tightly focussed series of essays by scholars of international reputation and younger experts in the field, John Donne's Professional Lives contains new discoveries and fresh interpretations. It offers a revisionist interpretation of Donne's career and makes a polemical case for studying the full range of his writings. Read more...
John Donne's Professional Lives
The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of SurpriseEdinburgh University Press2012
This new study asks how stories affect the way we think about time and, in particular, how they condition thinking about the future. Focusing on surprise and the unforeseeable, the book argues that stories are mechanisms that reconcile what is taking place with what will have been. Read more...
The Unexpected: Narrative Temporality and the Philosophy of Surprise
Postmodern Narrative ThoeryPalgrave MacMillan2011
In this revised, updated and expanded new edition of an established text, Mark Currie explores a range of central questions and guides students through the complex theories that have shaped the study of narrative in recent decades. Read more...
Postmodern Narrative Theory
About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of TimeEdinburgh University Press2007
About Time brings together ideas about time from narrative theory and philosophy. It argues that literary criticism and narratology have approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect, and demonstrates through a series of arguments and readings that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future offer new analytical perspectives to narrative criticism and theory. Read more...
About Time: Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time
Markman Ellis, Brycchan Carey, and Sarah Salih (eds)
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832Palgrave2004
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory, and visual culture in the 'long' eighteenth century. Read more...
Discourses of Slavery and Abolition: Writing in Britain and its Colonies 1660-1832
2004
Markman Ellis
The Coffee House: A Cultural HistoryWeidenfeld and Nicolson2004
For a hundred years the coffee-house occupied the centre of urban life. Merchants held auctions of goods, writers and poets conducted discussions, scientists demonstrated experiments and gave lectures, philanthropists deliberated reforms. Coffee-houses thus played a key role in the explosion of political, financial, scientific and literary change in the 18th century. Read more...
The Coffee House: A Cultural History
The History of Gothic FictionEdinburgh University Press2000
The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Read more...
The History of Gothic Fiction
The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental NovelCambridge University Press1996
By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the ways in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance. Read more...
The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel
Ellis, Markman, and Ann Lewis (eds) sedmiddle
Markman Ellis and Ann Lewis (eds)
Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century CulturePickering and Chatto2011
This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways in which those involved in the sex trade were represented in the literary and popular culture of the eighteenth-century, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. Read more...
Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture
Gilmour, Rachael, and Schwarz, Bill (eds) sedmodern
Rachael Gilmour and Bill Schwarz (eds)
End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945Manchester University Press2011
This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Read more...
End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945
Rachael Gilmour
Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South AfricaPalgrave2006
The study of languages was crucial to the development and maintenance of colonial power in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century South Africa. Grammars of Colonialism provides an overview of colonial linguistics in the region from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, before proceeding to a detailed study of representations of the Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1870s. Read more...
Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
Halliday, Sam sedmiddle
Sam Halliday
Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing ElectricityPalgrave2007
This book reveals the full extent of electricity's significance in Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century literature and culture. Read more...
Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James: Thinking and Writing Electricity
Halliday, Sam sedmodern
Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the ArtsEdinburgh University Press2013
Drawing on a wealth of texts and thinkers, the book shows the distinctive nature of sonic cultures in modernity. Arguing that these cultures are not reducible to sound alone, the book further shows that these encompass representations of sound in 'other' media: especially literature; but also, cinema and painting. Read more...
Sonic Modernity: Representing Sound in Literature, Culture and the Arts
Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, TheoryChicago University Press2003
This bracing study redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. According to Paul Hamilton, metaromanticism, or the ways in which writers of the romantic period generalized their own practices, was fundamentally characteristic of the romantic project itself. Read more...
Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory
Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of LogicContinuum2007
Samuel Taylor Coleridge frequently bridged the gap between British and European Romantic thought. This study sets Coleridge's mode of thinking within a German Romantic philosophical context as the place where his ideas can naturally extend themselves, stretch and find speculations of comparable ambition. Read more...
Coleridge and German Philosophy: The Poet in the Land of Logic
Historicism: The New Critical IdiomRoutledge2003
Historicism is the essential introduction to this crucial concept in literary studies. Read more...
Historicism: The New Critical Idiom
Hiatt, Alfred sedearly
Alfred Hiatt
Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600British Library/University of Chicago Press2008
In Terra Incognita, Alfred Hiatt draws on sources both literary and visual to understand the appeal of the antipodes. Examining maps and diagrams, as well as evidence contained in geographical and historical works, poetry, travel narratives, and legal documents, he challenges long-standing characterizations of medieval spatiality as exclusively symbolic and religious. Read more...
Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
Ahmed, Rehana
Rehana Ahmed with Sumita Mukherjee (eds)
South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947 Continuum2011
This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. Read more...
South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858–1947
Rehana Ahmed with Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin (eds)
Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim WritingRoutledge2012
Experts in English, South Asian, and postcolonial literatures address the nature of Muslim identity: its response to political realignments since the 1980s, its tensions between religious and secular models of citizenship, and its manifestation of these tensions as conflict between generations. Read more...
Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
Rehana Ahmed with Ruvani Ranasinha (lead editor), Sumita Mukherjee and Florian Stadtler (eds)
South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook Manchester University Press2013
This invaluable sourcebook intervenes in contemporary debates about Britain’s heritage by illuminating the remarkable, yet still overlooked, impact that South Asians had on shaping the nature of British culture, politics and national identity during the period 1870−1950. Read more...
South Asians and the Shaping of Britain, 1870–1950: A Sourcebook
Rehana Ahmed (ed.)
Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian BritainMacmillan Children's Books2004
This title is a collection of short stories by some of Britain's top Asian writers - many of them writing for teenagers for the first time. Read more...
Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain
The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century EnglandBritish Library/University of Toronto Press2004
In The Making of Medieval Forgeries, Alfred Hiatt focuses on forgery in fifteenth-century England and provides a survey of the practice from the Norman Conquest through to the early sixteenth century, considering the function and context in which the forgeries took place. Read more...
The Making of Medieval Forgeries: False Documents in Fifteenth-Century England
Suzanne Hobson
Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960Palgrave2011
Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. This book argues that it is precisely the angel's lack of fit with self-consciously modern attitudes to art and belief that explains its continued attraction to modernist writers as well as its capacity to generate new meanings. Read more...
Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics, 1910-1960
Hobson, Suzanne, and Rachel Potter (eds) sedmodern
Suzanne Hobson and Rachel Potter (eds)
The Salt Companion to Mina LoySalt2010
The Companion will be an invaluable new resource for students and readers of modernism. It provides new perspectives and cutting-edge research on Loy’s work and is distinctive in its consideration of her prosodic and linguistic experiments alongside a discussion of the literary and historical contexts in which she worked. Read more...
The Salt Companion to Mina Loy
Peter Howarth
British Poetry in the Age of ModernismCambridge University Press2005
This is the first critical account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary social and political developments and the trauma of the First World War. Read more...
British Poetry in the Age of Modernism
Howarth, Peter, and A. D. Cousins (eds) sedmodern
Peter Howarth and A. D. Cousins (eds)
The Cambridge Companion to the SonnetCambridge University Press2011
Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and E. E. Cummings. Read more...
The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet
Howarth, Peter
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist PoetryCambridge University Press2011
This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English. Read more...
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry
David James
Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary NovelCambridge University Press2012
In Modernist Futures, David James examines the implications of modernism's continuity in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing by tracing its political and ethical valences in emerging novelistic practices. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje and Phillip Roth, James reconsiders the purpose of literary innovation as it relates to the artistic and cultural interventions such writers perform. Read more...
Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel
Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, PerceptionContinuum2008
This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged with landscape description as a catalyst for innovation. Read more...
Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space: Style, Landscape, Perception
James, David (ed.) sedmodern
The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary FictionCambridge University Press2011
Bringing together internationally distinguished scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, these essays reveal how the most innovative writers working today draw on the legacies of modernist literature. Read more...
The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction
Catherine Maxwell
The Female Sublime from Milton to SwinburneManchester University Press2001
'The female sublime from Milton to Swinburne' examines the feminisation of the post-Miltonic male poet, not through cultural history, but through a series of mythic or classical figures which include Philomela, Orpheus and Sappho. Read more...
The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne
Maxwell, Catherine (ed.) sedmiddle
Catherine Maxwell (ed.)
Algernon Charles SwinburneJ. M. Dent1997
The last of the Romantics, Swinburne's poems took the public by storm, intoxicated by their rhythms and shocked by his lack of restraint. Read more...
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1997
Coulton, Richard, Markman Ellis, and Matthew Mauger sedmiddle
Markman Ellis (General Editor), Richard Coulton, Matthew Mauger, and Ben Dew (Volume Editors)
Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century EnglandPickering and Chatto2010
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam, India in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company’s monopoly on the tea trade in 1833. Read more...
Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England
SwinburneNorthcote House2006
This book introduces the reader to the work for which Swinburne is most famous, concentrating on three major collections as well as a number of his most influential essays. Representative close-readings of selected poems and essays reveal the often complex webs of reference and allusion which give his work depth and richness. Read more...
Swinburne
Maxwell, Catherine, and Patricia Pulham (eds) sedmiddle
Catherine Maxwell and Patricia Pulham (eds)
Vernon LeeHauntings and other Fantastic TalesBroadview2006
First published in 1890, Lee's most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. Read more...
Vernon Lee, Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian LiteratureManchester University Press2008
This challenging and important study, which examines a range of canonical and less well-known writers, is an innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature in its relation to visionary Romanticism. Read more...
Second Sight: The Visionary Imagination in Late Victorian Literature
Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, AestheticsPalgrave MacMillan2006
This timely book is the first collection of critical essays on Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935), the author of forty-three volumes, and a major literary figure and leading European cosmopolitan intellectual whose contribution to the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siécle and to an emergent twentieth-century modernism is currently under re-evaluation. Read more...
Vernon Lee: Decadence, Ethics, Aesthetics
Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian LiteratureModern Humanities research Association2010
The fourteen essays in this collection offer diverse new perspectives on the arts in Victorian Literature. Containing innovative research by leading critics in the field, this collection makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the relations between literature and the arts in the Victorian period. Read more...
Yearbook of English Studies, 40: The Arts in Victorian Literature
Claire Preston and Reid Barbour (eds)
Sir Thomas Brown: The World ProposedOxford University Press2008
Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Read more...
Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed
BeeReaktion Books2006
The bee is not a domestic animal, yet our relationship with this creature is one of the longest-standing between humanity and any other species. Read more...
Bee
Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern ScienceCambridge University Press2005
Claire Preston argues that Thomas Browne's work can be fully understood only within the range of disciplines and practices associated with natural philosophy and early modern empiricism. Early modern methods of cataloguing, collecting, experimentation and observation organised his writing on many subjects from medicine and botany to archaeology and antiquarianism. Read more...
Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early-Modern Science
Edith Wharton's Social RegisterMacmillan/St Martin's2000
Edith Wharton's wide reading in the nascent disciplines of anthropology, sociology, and evolutionary theory of her day plays a significant role in her fictions. Read more...
Edith Wharton’s Social Register
Katy Price
Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's UniverseUniversity of Chicago Press2012
Loving Faster than Light focuses on the popular reception of relativity in Britain, demonstrating how abstract science came to be entangled with class politics, new media technology, changing sex relations, crime, cricket, and cinematography in the British imagination during the 1920s. Read more...
Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe
News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and EuropeRoutledge2005
Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern Britain. Read more...
News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe
Raymond, Joad, and Graham Parry (eds) sedearly
Joad Raymond and Graham Parry (eds)
Milton and the Terms of LibertyD. S. Brewer2002
Taking initiative from both the history of political thought and historicist aesthetics, the essays in this collection (which derive from the International Milton symposium at York) consider the conditions of liberty in Milton's writings. Read more...
Milton and the Terms of Liberty
Joad Raymond
Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern BritainCambridge University Press2003
This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form. Using a long-term perspective and a broad range of historical, bibliographical and textual evidence, the book sketches a complex definition of a 'pamphlet'. Read more...
Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain
The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649Clarendon Press1996
The Invention of the Newspaper is the first interdisciplinary account of the origins and early development of the English newspaper, using both manuscript and printed evidence to account for the precise moment of the newsbook's appearance - a moment just a few months before the outbreak of civil war. Read more...
The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks, 1641-1649
Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700Palgrave2011
This collection offers a new and compelling vision of the place of angels in medieval and early-modern Europe. Through literal and figurative conversations with angels, humans acquired or imagined new forms of knowledge and new understandings of the relationship between God and man and of the arrangement of the natural world. Read more...
Conversations with Angels: Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700
News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern BritainFrank Cass1999
This volume offers a series of perspectives on the developing relations between news, its material forms, gender, advertising, drama, medicine, national identity, the book trade and public opinion. Read more...
News, Newspapers, and Society in Early Modern Britain
The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture is an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present. Read more...
The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume I: Cheap Print in Britain and Ireland to 1660
Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern ImaginationOxford University Press2010
Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination explores the fate of angels in Reformation Britain, and shows how and why Paradise Lost is a poem about angels that is both shockingly literal and sublimely imaginative. Read more...
Milton's Angels: The Early-Modern Imagination
Reid, Christopher, and John Mullan (eds) sedmiddle
Christopher Reid and John Mullan (eds)
Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A SelectionOxford University Press2000
During the eighteenth century, popular culture assumed a peculiar importance; this collection makes available what was once popular but has long been buried. Read more...
Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture: A Selection
Reid, Christopher sedmiddle
Christopher Reid
Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800Oxford University Press2012
Imprison'd Wranglers looks in detail at the making of a rhetorical culture inside and outside of the House of Commons during the later eighteenth century, a time when Parliament consolidated its authority as a national institution and gained a new kind of prominence in the public eye. Read more...
Imprison'd Wranglers: The Rhetorical Culture of the House of Commons, 1760-1800
Reid, Christopher, and Michael Edwards (eds) sedmiddle
Christopher Reid and Michael Edwards (eds)
Oratory in ActionManchester university Press2004
Oratory in Action has an inherent cross-disciplinary appeal and this book should be of interest to undergraduate and more advanced readers in a number of subject areas, such as classical studies, literature, history, law and performance studies. Read more...
Oratory in Action
Reynolds, Margaret, and Angela Leighton (eds) sedmiddle
Margaret Reynolds and Angela Leighton (eds)
Victorian Women Poets: An AnthologyBlackwell1999
This reader contains sixteen new and recent essays addressing work by, and issues raised concerning, Victorian women poets Read more...
Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology
Reynolds, Margaret (ed.) sedmiddle
Margaret Reynolds (ed.)
George EliotAdam BedePenguin2008
Within the setting of Hayslope, a small, rural community, Eliot brilliantly creates a sense of earthy reality, making the landscape itself as vital a presence in the novel as that of her characters themselves. Read more...
George Eliot, Adam Bede
Aoife Monks
The Actor in CostumePalgrave Macmillan2010
From the role of costume in Modernist theatre to the actor's position in the fashion system, from nudity to stage ghosts, this wide-ranging exploration of costume, and its histories, argues for the centrality of costume to the spectator's experience at the theatre. Read more...
The Actor in Costume
Margaret Reynolds
The Sappho HistoryPalgrave2003
In The Sappho History, Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid eighteenth-century to the twentieth-century. Read more...
The Sappho History
The Sappho CompanionChatto and Windus2000
Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of Greece. Her work survives only in fragments, yet her influence extends throughout Western literature, fuelled by the speculations and romances which have gathered around her name, her story, her sexuality. The Sappho Companion brings together many different kinds of work, ranging from blue-stocking appreciations to juicy fantasies. Read more...
The Sappho Companion
Isabel Rivers
The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to PopeRivers Press Ltd1973
Public poetry, which is concerned with the worlds of public order, government, and political events, provides a rewarding source of evidence about the ways in which literature and society may interact. By examining the careers of the major public poets in the period from the reign of James I to the administration of Walpole, the author shows how their work was modified and moulded by the events it was intended to influence. Read more...
The Poetry of Conservatism, 1600-1745: A Study of Poets and Public Affairs from Jonson to Pope
1973
Isabel Rivers (ed.)
Books and Their Readers in 18th Century EnglandLeicester University Press1982
Although this volume does not claim to be a comprehensive survey of books and their readers in the eighteenth century, it breaks new ground to provide much information and interpretation not available elsewhere. Read more...
Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England
1982
Rivers, Isabel, and David L. Wykes (eds) sedmiddle
Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes (eds)
Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and TheologianOxford University Press2008
This collection of essays by a team of experts covers the full range of Priestley's work and provides a new and up to date account of all his activities, together with a summary of his life and an account of his last years in America. Read more...
Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and WalesOxford University Press2011
This comprehensive collection of essays by specialist authors provides the first full account of dissenting hymns and their impact in England and Wales, from the mid seventeenth century, when the hymn emerged out of metrical psalms as a distinct literary form, to the early twentieth century, after which the traditional hymn began to decline in importance. Read more...
Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales
Rivers, Isabel sedearly sedmiddle
Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to HumeCambridge University Press2000 (paperback, 2005)
This volume completes Isabel Rivers' widely acclaimed exploration of the relationship between religion and ethics from the mid-seventeenth to the later eighteenth centuries. She investigates the effect of attempts to separate ethics from religion, and to locate the foundation of morals in the constitution of human nature. Read more...
Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume II: Shaftesbury to Hume
Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to WesleyCambridge University Press1991 (paperback, 2005)
In this first part of an important two-volume study, Isabel Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion and the reactions against it expressed in nonconformity, dissent and Methodism. Read more...
Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660-1780, volume I: Whichcote to Wesley
Rivers, Isabel (ed.) sedmiddle
Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New EssaysLeicester University Press2001[Paperback, Continuum, 2003]
The history of the book is an expanding subject: there has been a revolution in its academic study over the last two decades. This collection of eight new essays investigates the relationship between writers, books and readers in eighteenth-century England and the ways in which different kinds of books were written, edited, published, and disseminated for different audiences. Read more...
Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England: New Essays
Rivers, Isabel sedearly
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' GuideRoutledge1994, 2nd edn (first published in 1979)
Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. Read more...
Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry: A Students' Guide (2nd edn)
John Barrell and Tim Whelan (eds)
The Political Writings of William FoxTrent Editions2011
This edition gathers together all Fox's known writings, with full explanatory notes and an introduction which explains who he was and how he believed he could reconcile his apparently incompatible beliefs. Read more...
The Political Writings of William Fox
Rubery, Matthew, and Stephen Donovan (eds) sedmiddle
Matthew Rubery and Stephen Donovan (eds)
Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative JournalismBroadview2012
Secret Commissions brings together nineteen key documents of Victorian investigative journalism; collectively, they show how unsparing descriptions of social injustice became regular features of English journalism long before the advent of American-style "muckraking." Read more...
Secret Commissions: An Anthology of Victorian Investigative Journalism
Rubery, Matthew sedmiddle
Matthew Rubery
The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the NewsOxford university Press2009
The Novelty of Newspapers highlights the variety of ways the changing world of nineteenth-century journalism shaped the period's most popular literary form. Read more...
The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News
Rubery, Matthew (ed.) sedmodern
Matthew Rubery (ed.)
Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound StudiesRoutledge2011
This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Read more...
Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Schwarz, Bill (ed.) sedmodern
Bill Schwarz (ed.)
The Locations of George LammingMacmillan Caribbean2007
The Locations of George Lamming brings together scholars and critics from across the Atlantic world who present a unique reading of Lamming's imaginative reach. Read more...
The Locations of George Lamming
Schwarz, Bill (ed.)
West Indian Intellectuals in BritainManchester University Press2003
The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain, and a key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain. Read more...
West Indian Intellectuals in Britain
Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl LovelaceInstitute for the Study of the Americas2008
This is the first published volume to assess Lovelace’s fiction and his larger role in Caribbean letters. Read more...
Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace
Schwarz, Bill, and Cora Kaplan (eds) sedmodern
Bill Schwarz and Cora Kaplan (eds)
James Baldwin: America and BeyondUniversity of Michigan Press2011
This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. Read more...
James Baldwin: America and Beyond
Schwarz, Bill, and Susannah Radstone (eds) sedmodern
Bill Schwarz and Susannah Radstone (eds)
Memory: Histories, Theories, DebatesFordham University Press2010
In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research. Read more...
Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
Bill Schwarz
The White Man's WorldOxford University Press2011
The White Man's World, the first volume in the Memories of Empire trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. Read more...
The White Man's World
Shiach, Morag (ed.) sedmodern
Morag Shiach (ed.)
The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist NovelCambridge University Press2007
In this 2007 Companion leading critics explore the very significant pleasures of reading modernist novels, but also demonstrate how and why reading modernist fiction can be difficult. Read more...
The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
Shiach, Morag sedmiddle sedmodern
Morag Shiach
Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930Cambridge University Press2004
Morag Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. Read more...
Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930
Valman, Nadia, and Tony Kushner (eds) sedmodern
Nadia Valman and Tony Kushner (eds)
Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'Ashgate2004
Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. Read more...
Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'The Jews'
Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British SocietyVallentine Mitchell2000
This collection presents research on the 1939 confrontation between the police, fascists and anti-fascists in London's Jewish neighbourhood, and its impact on British society. Read more...
Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Society
Valman, Nadia sedmiddlea
Nadia Valman
The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary CultureCambridge University Press2007
While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in the nineteenth-century, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Read more...
The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
Valman, Nadia, and Naomi Hetherington (eds) sedmiddle
Nadia Valman and Naomi Hetherington (eds)
Amy Levy: Critical EssaysOhio University Press2010
Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women’s poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual, and political contexts of Levy’s writing and its contemporary reception. Read more...
Amy Levy: Critical Essays
Valman, Nadia, and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern
Nadia Valman and Eitan Bar-Yosef (eds)
The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East AfricaPalgrave2009
Exploring links between Zionist culture and the British imperial experience, essays in this collection suggest how the methods of postcolonial criticism may be applied both to modern Jewish perceptions of territory and nation and to the image of 'the Jew' in the British political imagination. Read more...
The ‘Jew' in late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa
Valman, Nadia, and Bryan Cheyette (eds) sedmiddle sedmodern
Nadia Valman and Bryan Cheyette (eds)
The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914Vallentine Mitchell2004
This collection of essays explores the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, Germany, France and Italy - in the long nineteenth century. The essays examine the presence both of explicitly anti-Semitic writing and apparently anti-Jewish stereotypes in the work of writers who were not consciously hostile to Jews. Read more...
The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914
van der Vlies, Andrew (ed.) sedmodern
Andrew van der Vlies (ed.)
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South AfricaWits University Press2012
This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. Read more...
Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa
Andrew van der Vlies
South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all OverManchester University Press2007
Nation' and 'literature' are always inherently unstable categories but, in the case of South Africa, this instability is particularly marked. This study considers the effects local and global networks had on the publication, promotion and reception of a series of key writers and their works between 1883 and 2005. Read more...
South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's GuideContinuum2010
This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century. Offering an overview of the author's career, informed discussion of the novel's setting and references, this guide considers such issues as the representation of race, gender, the land, and animals, and its concern with language, power, music, confession, and allegory. Read more...
J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace: A Reader's Guide
Vigus, James, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds) sedmiddle
James Vigus, Klaus Vieweg, and Kathleen M. Wheeler (eds)
Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and PhilosophyOxford University Press2013
One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ‘Shandean humour’ in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne’s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. Read more...
Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy
Vigus, James, and Jane Wright (eds) sedmiddle
James Vigus and Jane Wright (eds)
Coleridge's AfterlivesPalgrave MacMillan2008
In this volume, fourteen specially commissioned essays examine for the first time the breadth and variety of Coleridge's afterlives. Topics include philosophy, gender, education, American literature, South Asian literature, aesthetics, narrative, literary criticism and poetry. Read more...
Coleridge's Afterlives
Vigus, James, and Helmut Huhn (eds) sedmiddle
James Vigus and Helmut Huhn (eds)
Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period AestheticsOxford University Press2013
The international contributors to this volume explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Read more...
Symbol and Intuition: Comparative Studies in Kantian and Romantic-Period Aesthetics
Vigus, James (ed.) sedmiddle
James Vigus (ed.)
Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German AestheticsModern Humanities Research Association2010
As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. Read more...
Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schilling, and German Aesthetics
Informal RomanticismWissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier2012
Frequently drawing on new editorial scholarship in the period, the contributions to this volume collectively illuminate one of the most enticing yet hitherto least appreciated aspects of Romanticism: its informality. Read more...
Informal Romanticism
James Vigus
Platonic ColeridgeLegenda2009
James Vigus’s study traces Coleridge’s discovery of a Plato marginalised in the universities, and examines his use of German sources on the ‘divine philosopher’, and his Platonic interpretation of Kant’s epistemology. Read more...
Platonic Coleridge
Barbara Taylor and Sarah Knott (eds)
Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850Palgrave2005
This path-breaking volume of interdisciplinary essays by forty leading scholars provides a detailed picture of the creative, controversial role played by women and gender issues in the age of light. Read more...
Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth CenturyHarvard University Press1983
This book, winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1983, recovers the connections between socialist aims and feminist aspirations. Read more...
Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century
1983
Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle sedmodern
Barbara Taylor and Adam Phillips
On KindnessPenguin2009
Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Read more...
On Kindness
Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander (eds)
History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the PastPalgrave2012
Recent decades have seen a growing interest in psychoanalysis across the Humanities. History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, including topics such as Luther and psychobiography, empathy and historical subjectivity, the political history of the Oedipus complex, and childhood in early modernity. Read more...
History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist ImaginationCambridge University Press2003
In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Read more...
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination