Down from London by Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton explores ‘seaside reading’ in the 1840s-1930s, from early sensation novels to crime and romance fiction. In this blog post Oulton considers the origins of the British seaside holiday and literary tourism. The seaside summer holiday, as frustrated globetrotters have been regularly reminded in the last three … Continue reading
Harold Norse: Poet Maverick, Gay Laureate
Harold Norse: Poet Maverick, Gay Laureate, edited by A. Robert Lee and Douglas Field and published by Clemson University Press, is the first volume of essays on the enigmatic but overlooked poet and artist associated with the Beats and Gay Liberation poetry. In this blog post, the book's editors reflect on why Norse was a … Continue reading
The Shelleys and the Brownings
New to our English Association Monographs series, The Shelleys and the Brownings by Rieko Suzuki is the first book to focus solely on the intertextual relationships between the Shelleys and the Brownings. In this blog post, Suzuki considers the legacies of these four writers. As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Shelley’s death this year, we … Continue reading
Yeats, the Library, and Literary Afterlife
January 28, 2022 marks the 83rd anniversary of the death of W. B. Yeats in 1939. The anniversary nearly coincides with the February 1, 2022 publication of Wayne K. Chapman’s study “Something that I read in a book”: W. B. Yeats’s Annotations at the National Library of Ireland in two volumes (I: Reading Notes; and … Continue reading
Apocalypse in Fiction: Then and Now
Christopher Palmer, author of Apocalypse in Crisis, explores the rise of apocalyptic fiction since the end of the Second World War, shining a light on the relevance of current crises to the genre. One thing that the experience of the last few years has forced on us is that we are not allowed one … Continue reading
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