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A Blessing and a Curse: The Ambivalent Power of Literacy in Frederick Douglass’ Narrative
Author Bio: Rosie Higgins is a fourth-year undergraduate at The University of Edinburgh, studying English Literature. Her academic work...
Rosie Higgins
Aug 27
Impact of Interpersonal Relationships on Protagonists’ Life Choices in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Stranger
Author Bio: Neel Sukul is a second year Philosophy and English Literature student. He is deeply interested in exploring the architecture...
Neel Sukul
Aug 27
Examining and Critiquing the Role of Empathy in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Author Bio: Rachel Jones is a recent graduate from the University of Edinburgh, earning a degree in English Literature. While she has a...
Rachel Jones
Aug 27
‘You ought to be ashamed’: Sexuality in Eliot’s The Waste Land
Author Bio: Alfie is a third-year English Literature and History student from West Yorkshire. His interests mainly revolve around modern...
Alfie Goodwin
Aug 27
‘If only for a little while, beyond the confines of this world, and into another’- Queering Time in Orlando, Giovanni’s Room, and ‘Thirteen Ecstasies of the Soul’
Author Bio: Shahrez Chauhan is an interdisciplinary researcher working with visual, material, and literary modes of cultural production...
Shahrez Chauhan
Aug 27
Marked by Violence: Bodily Autonomy and Sexual Politics in Titus Andronicus, Written on the Body and Parable of the Sower
Author Bio: Emily Caris-Harris is a fourth-year English Literature and History student at the University of Edinburgh. Throughout her...
Emily Caris-Harris
Aug 27
‘The Time Is Out of Joint’: Metaphysical and Cultural Entanglement in Hamlet and The Spanish Tragedy
Author Bio: Jada Horan is a recent English Literature graduate from the University of Edinburgh. She enjoys reading speculative fiction,...
Jada Horan
Aug 27
The Medieval Body is not a Passive Entity: The Body as an Imaginative Landscape in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle and ‘The Tale of Iphis and Ianthe’
Author Bio: Daisy Hunter is a third-year English Literature student at the University of Edinburgh. Her literary interests include...
Daisy Hunter
Aug 27
Possession and Patriarchy: Gendered Ownership in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White and Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South
Author Bio: Rosie Higgins is graduating this summer with a degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Her academic...
Rosie Higgins
Aug 27
Christian Heroism in 'The Dream of the Rood'
Author Bio: Alfie is a third-year English Literature and History student from West Yorkshire. His interests mainly revolve around modern...
Alfie Goodwin
Aug 27
Comparing Critical Theory- Saidiya Hartman, ‘Venus in Two Acts’, and Catherine Gallagher & Stephen Greenblatt, ‘Introduction’ to Practicing New Historicism
Author Bio: Zanthe Livingstone is a 4th year English Literature student who has just graduated from the University of Edinburgh. While...
Zanthe Livingstone
Aug 27
Emblem of a Musical Renaissance: Reassessing Josquin Des Prez’s Miserere mei, Deus
Author Bio: Emma is a second-year student at the University of Edinburgh reading Music, soon to undertake a year abroad at the University...
Emma Lucas
Aug 27
‘My Pintle onely shall my scepter bee’: Anarchy and the Politics of Queer Sex in Rochester and Cleland
Author Bio: Naomi is an English Literature and History graduate from the University of Edinburgh. Her interests are in late-medieval...
Naomi Wallace
Aug 27
Maternal Detachment in Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958) and Sarraute’s Childhood (1983)
Author Bio: Iris Thirlwall is a fourth year English Literature student at The University of Edinburgh. Throughout her studies, she has...
Iris Thirlwall
Aug 27
The Influence of Gender Roles on Destiny in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss
Author Bio: Regan is a third year undergraduate English Literature student at the University of Edinburgh, currently completing her year...
Regan Reiners
Aug 27
Subtle Resistance and Public Hysterics: Female Agency in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Pope’s The Rape of the Lock
Author Bio: Sanika Prakash is an incoming third-year student of History of Art and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and...
Sanika Prakash
Aug 27
Natasha Rostova and the Spirit of Russian Motherhood
Author Bio: Madeleine O’Shea is a recent English Literature and Classics graduate from the University of Edinburgh. She is particularly...
Madeleine O'Shea
Aug 27
A review of 'You Must Believe In Spring' by Mohamed Tonsy (2022) - plus an interview with the author
You are invited to read about a writer whose voice is incredibly aware of a ticking noise in the background of space and time...
Simran Kaur Johal
Feb 6
The Nature of Fathers, Family and Fetishism in Silas Marner
‘The truth of the fetish resides in its status as a material embodiment’ (William Pietz)
Sanika Prakash
Jan 21
Tensions in a Changing America: Conflicts Between Individual Desires and Social Authority in Daisy Miller, Tracks, and The Age of Innocence
“I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate anything to me or to interfere with anything I do”
(James 40)
Rosie Higgins
Jan 21
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