Journals

Featured in Town Planning Review 93.3: The Potential Impact of Different Types of Planners: Ethical principles in an increasingly diverse planning profession

Featured in Town Planning Review 93.3: 'Ethical principles in an increasingly diverse planning profession: the potential impact of different types of planners' by Hannah Hickman and John Sturzaker.

Enlightenment

Rousseau et Locke: Dialogues critiques

Rousseau et Locke: Dialogues critiques is the July volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This volume, edited by Johanna Lenne-Cornuez and Céline Spector reassesses the legacy of Lockian thought in that of Rousseau, in all areas of his philosophy. This blog post introduces readers to this new edited collection discussing the claims and ambitions of … Continue reading

Journals, Literature, Poetry

Meet the Editors of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

Meet the Editors of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Julia E. Daniel and Frances Dickey, and get a preview of what’s to come in future issues in the first of a series of videos that will see Julia and Frances chatting with contributors across each volume of the Annual.

Literature, science fiction

Sport, Religio-Politics, and Science Fiction

Enticing you to read his most recent book, Sport and Monstrosity in Science Fiction by Derek J. Thiess, gave him a unique challenge. How does he get the buy-in of, primarily, academics on a project about sport—a subject that is largely viewed, especially in the humanities, as having little to do with the serious, intellectual … Continue reading

Literature, Poetry

Some Bright Eternity: Shelley at 200

‘Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned: now he knows whether there is a God or no’. So wrote a Tory reviewer after Shelley’s premature death. Cruel as the remark is, the reviewer accidentally lights upon the questions that had preoccupied the poet throughout his short life: is there a God and is there life after death? Madeleine Callaghan discusses this as a crucial facet of her new book, Eternity in British Romantic Poetry for the bicentenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley's death.