The Lavin Agency has made lecture extracts from Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood available on YouTube: Salman Rushdie on the public v private, Austen and authorship Margaret Atwood on Dickens and authorship Extracts from Alice Walker’s lecture at Barnard are also available on YouTube, where she discusses Zora Neale Hurston – Part 1 2. The full lecture … Continue reading »
Posted in October 2007 …
The 27th Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz (July 29 – Aug 4, 2007)
Guest Post: Beth Penney (Monterey Peninsula College) The 2007 Dickens Universe at the University of California Santa Cruz was just the right blend of sun and fog, serious scholarship and fun. This year’s gathering, the function’s 27th, included 120 participants, including 29 undergraduate, or ‘summer school’ students, the largest number ever, 44 faculty, and 55 … Continue reading »
Art Reveals More of Life than Life Does: Heterosexuality, Erotohistoriography, and a Pleasurably Queer Medieval Studies
Figure 1. Sketch for an Imaginary University Were I writer, and dead, how would I love it if my life, through the pains of some friendly and detached biographer, were to reduce itself to a few details, a few preferences, a few inflections, let us say: to “biographemes” whose distinction and mobility might come to … Continue reading »
Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustration
Image Details: Adelaide Claxton, ‘The Daily Governess’, London Society (June, 1862) Guest Post: Tim Killick, Cardiff University Victorian print culture was saturated with illustration. From Phiz’s comic accompaniments to Dickens to the Pre-Raphaelites’ fascination with the artistic potential of wood-engraving, word and image went hand-in-hand in the Victorian text. Not only literary works, but also … Continue reading »
Association of Literature on Screen Studies, 2nd Annual Conference (Sept 20-22, 2007, Atlanta, GA)
Guest Post: Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University) and Jeremy Strong (Writtle College) The number of parallel sessions meant that it was impossible to get to everything that you wanted to hear. Nonetheless, it was unanimously agreed that both the number and standard of papers were high, indicating that there’s no doubt that there’s a future … Continue reading »
‘Britain and British Nationalisms’
We have just published our third Compass Cluster on ‘Britain and British Nationalisms’. Compass Clusters bring together recent and older articles from the archive, presenting these pieces thematically. The first three articles chosen for a cluster are freely available for a limited time! The cluster is accessible from the righthand box on the homepage and … Continue reading »
