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A review of 'Her Body & Other Parties', by Carmen Maria Machado (2017)
Machado’s characters don’t behave like regular people. Perhaps that’s what makes this collection so irresistible.
Hugo Donnelly
Jan 5, 2024
A review of 'The Godfather', by Mario Puzo (1969)
Loyalty is no longer a virtue earned, but at the mercy of a coin toss- but not to worry! There are enough heads to go around.
Aanya Mitra
Oct 9, 2023
The Radical Restoration: Dworkin’s ‘Intercourse’ & Female Sexuality in the Seventeenth-Century
By Olivia Whitelaw Author Biography: Olivia Whitelaw is a recent graduate of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her...
Olivia Whitelaw
Oct 2, 2023
In what ways do Northern Irish poets engage issues of Gender?
By Hollie Johnston Author Biography: Hollie Johnston is a fourth-year student studying French and English Literature who was born and...
Hollie Johnston
Oct 2, 2023
Of Mimicry And (Wo)Man: The Location of Motherwork in Colonial Mimicry
By Prune Engérant Author Biography: Prune Engérant is a fourth year student at the University of Edinburgh, studying History of Art and...
Prune Engérant
Oct 2, 2023
Authorial Presence within the Works of Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane
By Aimee Parrett Author Biography: Aimee Parrett is a fourth-year student of English Literature and History from Australia and Scotland....
Aimee Parrett
Oct 2, 2023
The Dangers of Female Sexuality: Contagion, Infection, and Disease in Gothic Vampire Narratives
By Jasmine Niblett Author Biography: Jasmine Niblett is a 4th year English Literature and History student from Germany. Finishing up her...
Jasmine Niblett
Oct 2, 2023
Eliot, Hughes, and Problems of Poetic Difficulty
By Will Staveley Author Biography: Will Staveley is a final year student at the University of Edinburgh, studying English Literature....
Will Staveley
Oct 2, 2023
Aestheticized Violence and the ‘Amorous Catastrophe’
By Holly Elford Author Biography: Holly Elford is a final year English Literature student at the University of Edinburgh. Her interests...
Holly Elford
Oct 2, 2023
Burdens of Imperialism in ‘The White Man’s Burden’, An Outpost of Progress, and A Passage to India
By Armaan Verma Author Biography: Armaan is a fourth-year student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested...
Armaan Verma
Oct 2, 2023
The relationship between personal and cultural-historical memory in life-writing
By Chloe Jane Mansola Author Biography: Chloe Jane Mansola was born and grew up in Greece. She just finished her fourth year of English...
Chloe Jane Mansola
Oct 2, 2023
“Haunt me, then!”: Haunting as Symbolic Survival in the Gothic Literary Consciousness
By Olivia Whitelaw Author Biography: Olivia Whitelaw is a recent graduate of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her...
Olivia Whitelaw
Oct 2, 2023
How do Madame Bovary, Notes from the Underground, and Middlemarch explore the nature of freedom?
By Lucie-Ly Mey Author Biography: Lucie-Ly Mey is a third-year Celtic and English literature student at the University of Edinburgh, also...
Lucie-Ly Mey
Oct 2, 2023
Englishmen in the Contact Zone: A Close Reading of Gulliver’s Travels and The Rover
By August Enger Author Biography: August Enger is an undergraduate student of English Literature and History at the University of...
August Enger
Oct 2, 2023
Degeneration and the Disease Motif in Woolf’s Pearls and Swine and London’s Good-by, Jack
By Armaan Verma Author Biography: Armaan Verna is a fourth-year student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is...
Armaan Verma
Oct 2, 2023
Chaos and Consensus in Victorian Comic Literature
Read the full article here: In this essay I will be discussing the statement that ‘the dominant movement in Victorian Comedy is from...
Chloe Jane Mansola
Sep 4, 2022
Exploring the City through Kōbō Abe’s The Ruined Map and Yutaka Takanashi’s Toshi-e
Read the full article here: In this essay I will discuss how the city is explored in Kōbō Abe’s novel, The Ruined Map (1967) (hereafter...
Eleonora Soteriou
Sep 4, 2022
The Performance of Femininity in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September
Read the full article here: Many of the best-known texts of the Irish Literary Revival deal with a crisis of masculinity. John Millington...
Ana Orbegozo Desdentado
Sep 4, 2022
“Spell-bound”: Queer Futurity and Material Transfiguration in the Sketchbooks of Derek Jarman
Read the full article here: Expansive, palimpsestic, the many sketchbooks crafted and compiled by Derek Jarman throughout his creative...
Jakob N. Tynan
Sep 4, 2022
Sexuality as Degeneration within Modernist Writing of Empire
Read the full article here: The modernist writing of Empire appears to encapsulate an obsession with sexuality; a preoccupation which is...
Rosaleen Keehan
Sep 4, 2022
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