Woolf's memoir delves into her mother's influence, while Baldwin reflects on racial inheritance and Ondaatje navigates a colonial past.

Gothic techniques and setting are integral to navigating the characters' psychological states, as well as their wider social environments.

This essay explores the process through which a subject is sublimated into poetry in the work of Mark Doty and Elizabeth Bishop.

Both texts poignantly present anxieties towards love which exist in the present-day - anxieties which concern forces of patriarchal power.

It is an essay that engages with several issues key to Black American Fiction, such as politics, power, and intersectionality.

In Fantomina, ownership is defied by veiling one’s real identity, whereas in Oroonoko, the character’s real name symbolises his enslavement.

This essay explores systemic, romantic, financial, and sexual failures that lead to individual and shared experiences of loneliness.

This essay confronts Walcott's The Season of Phantasmal Peace, reading it as a meditation upon a moment of transcendence.

This essay inspects how and to what extent male authors managed to present women’s subjectivity authentically.

In this essay, Alexandra Kogan compares two authors’ approaches to the questions of narrative subjectivity and authorial control.

Characters from both texts are imaginatively recast to redefine personal histories and to reconnect with shared histories.

The topic addressed is Virginia Woolf’s life-writing – which is approached as an investigation into her own and her family’s selfhood.

Engaging with the postmodern trend of feminist revisionism popularised in the 1970s, Atwood critiques the mode of classical poetry.

Set in the patriarchal setting of the courtroom, the play is staged in a space in which belief is misplaced, and justice withheld.

Cope, in some unfathomable way, manages to capture the very moment that light comes flooding back into a person’s life.

Winterson seems to encourage us to love one another, but equally warns us against a desire that seeps into all aspects of our life.

They struggle for their own freedoms, growing up in a society where not only the buildings are crumbling apart but the community too.

Baldwin has left us with a collection of essays that, to me, reads like an accidental love letter to his father and ancestors.

It compels us, as readers, to reevaluate, perhaps, the sometimes blissful ignorance of our literary heroes.

Oswald seeks to illuminate the wonder and beauty of nature (though not without some angst) as well as the human place within it.