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The Power of Political Persuasion
Read the full article here: Both Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America and Muriel Spark’s novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie are...
Ella Ross Russell
Sep 4, 2022
Embracing Limit and Extravagance in the Elegies of Mark Doty
Read the full article here: In The Poetry of Mourning, Jahan Ramazani argues that the best modern elegies offer “not a guide to...
Max Lister
Sep 4, 2022
Alchemy, Natural Cycles, and Discomposure: The Representation of Love in the Renaissance Sonnet
Read the full article here: As a period defined by tremendous cultural upheaval, the Renaissance encouraged the reimagining of the...
Roman Ashurbekov
Sep 4, 2022
The Removal of the Female Characters from the Plot of The Iliad
Read the full article here: Across Homeric writing, female characters are passively presented to maintain their role as natural victims....
Aanya Mitra
Sep 4, 2022
‘Goblin Market’ - A Close Reading
Read the full article here: ‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti explores the commodification of sexuality and virtue, and acknowledges...
Tatun Harrison-Turnbull
Sep 4, 2022
The Futility of Anger in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger
Read the full article here: John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger depicts the disorientation of the post-war British generation. With the...
Willow Courtauld
Sep 4, 2022
Development of the Self in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
Read the full article here: Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey are both Romantic texts that focus on nascent...
Toby Appleyard
Sep 4, 2022
Chinua Achebe’s Ethnographic Response to Imperial Romance
Read the full article here: Literary critics have long interpreted Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart as a conscious retelling of African...
Moomal Ahmed
Sep 4, 2022
The Nightmare of Dracula’s Female Vampires
Read the full article here: Although Count Dracula is undoubtedly one of the most iconic literary figures of monstrosity in popular...
Claudia Ramage
Mar 2, 2022
Transgression and Subversion: Gender Hierarchies in 'Twelfth Night' and 'Paradise Lost'
Read the full article here: Within John Milton’s Paradise Lost and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, themes of gender and sexuality...
Simi Prasad
Mar 2, 2022
Satirising Courtly Love in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls
In ‘Satire and Irony as Means of Communication’, Jean Weisgerber argues that satire is not only a device specific to text but a form of...
Aarushi Marde
Mar 2, 2022
Conversations with the Supernatural in the Works of Washington Irving and Mary Shelley
Conversations with the Supernatural: Imagination, Satire and Ambiguous Fantasy in the Works of Washington Irving and Mary Shelley Read...
Willow Courtauld
Mar 2, 2022
Frustration, Terror and Rage: The Politics of Dissent during the Reign of Henry VIII
Read the full article here: Literature of the Henrician period is inherently reflective of the toxic political culture in which it was...
Matthew Tyrer
Mar 2, 2022
Liminal Horizons: Time in Contemporary Queer Fiction
Read the full article here: In his essay Queerness as a Horizon, Muñoz defines the act of queering time as “stepping out of the linearity...
Olivia Szczerbakiewicz
Mar 2, 2022
Relationality and Resistance in Bhanu Kapil’s and Florence Peake’s ‘Grounded’ Performances
Read the full article here: The mother of ecofeminist Performance Art as we know it today, Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta recognised...
Rory Buccheri
Mar 2, 2022
‘Under that Veil Conceal the Irregularities of her Heart’
‘Under that Veil Conceal the Irregularities of her Heart’: Criticisms of Women’s Conduct Literature through the Gothic Veil Motif in...
Beth Campbell
Mar 2, 2022
‘The unreality of our reality’
‘The unreality of our reality’: Elizabeth Bishop’s conflicting presentations of objects in Geography III. Read the full article here: In...
Charlotte Le Gresley
Mar 2, 2022
Fashioning the Self: Cross-dressing and Invention in The Roaring Girl
Read the full article here: To 'know', or 'studie', oneself was a dominant concern of the Early Modern period. Scepticism and self-doubt...
Eva Hudson
Mar 2, 2022
Here’s why Literacy Cannot Guarantee Liberation…
Read the full article here: Literacy’s empowering potential may make Frederick Douglass’ arguments about reading and writing appear...
Funmi Lijadu
Mar 2, 2022
Is The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer a Consolation?
Read the full article here: The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer is a medieval dream vision written between the years 1368 and...
Samantha Lo
Mar 2, 2022
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