‘The Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts’ is supported by a 3-year ‘Opus’ grant awarded by NCN, the Polish government-funded National Science Centre. It involves a collaboration between Kazimierz Wielki University (Bydgoszcz) and Poznań University with some significant research outputs: besides conference activity and journal articles, Dr Newbould will co-edit a major collection of essays […]

Pre-seminar materials will be uploaded on the Drama and Performance Moodle site. Please contact ew513@cam.ac.uk with any questions.

‘How to Wash a Heart’ is published by Pavilion Poetry. Link to further information: https://tseliot.com/prize/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2020/winner/        

To celebrate George Orwell joining the Oxford World’s Classics series, join the editor of Animal Farm, David Dwan as he chairs a conversation about one of the world’s  most influential writers. CrowdCast link to join the event: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/orwell_oxford_worlds_clas/register  

Manifold is celebrating the launch of their inaugural issue by hosting a symposium on Experimental Criticism that will run for seven weeks, starting Jan 21st. The panels will take place every Thursday from 1-2pm EST/6-7pm BST. To register for the events and for more information: https://www.manifoldcriticism.com/events Contributors of the first issue of Manifold will be […]

The Cambridge Foundation Year is a free and fully-funded one-year residential course designed to offer a stepping stone to Cambridge for those who have experienced educational disadvantage. If you want to pursue further study in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences, are ordinarily resident in the UK, and circumstances have prevented you from realising your […]

Link for further information: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800170162

Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure (Oxford UP, 2020) investigates Wordsworth’s sustained interest in unnoticed, retrospective and “unremembered” pleasure. Reading Wordsworth with and against the psychoanalytic tradition of reading for unconscious trauma, it recovers Wordsworth’s distinct interest in forgotten and unremembered things, and uses romanticism’s anti-traumatic forms as a resource for rethinking wider questions of aesthetic pleasure and compositional […]

The Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity are holding a joint online study evening on Thursday 28th January 2021, 6pm-7pm. The event is aimed at students in Years 11 and 12 with an interest in literature, performance, theology, religion, and philosophy of religion – especially those who may be considering studying these subjects […]

This edition reprints Empson’s classic work of literary criticism and related shorter writings, with full critical and textual commentaries. For further information: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/william-empson-the-structure-of-complex-words-9780198713432?cc=gb&lang=en&