John Milton’s notes identified in an influential book he once owned

‘The hand of Milton: Identifying the author’s annotated copy of Holinshed’s Chronicles’, an essay by researchers Claire M L Bourne, Aaron T Pratt and Jason Scott-Warren, was published in Issue 6320 of The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) on 17 May 2024.  Their identification of John Milton’s handwriting in two volumes of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587) belonging […]

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Graduate Research Forum Workshop, ‘Critical Forms: New Approaches to the Study of Literary Form’, Faculty of English, Tuesday 11 June. CfP deadline: Saturday 1 June

The Workshop will combine conference-style papers, a keynote by Professor Marion Thain (KCL), and a group discussion session responding to pre-circulated reading, led by our keynote. The event will be followed by a drinks reception where we encourage attendees to keep the conversations going! Our topic this year is Literary Form, with a particular focus […]

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Prof. Michael Hurley lectures on “Angels and Apes” at the Sorbonne, 16th May 2024

Prof. Hurley lectures on how the theological animus of 19th and early 20th century environmentalism challenges not only the disenchanting logic of technocratic capitalism, but also, more surprisingly, the progressive assumptions of contemporary eco-activism. Link to the Sorbonne website:  https://vale.sorbonne-universite.fr/sem-vale-16-05-2024-michael-hurley-cambridge-angels-and-apes-how-theology-meets-ecology-in-chesterton-wordsworth-and-hopkins-bibliotheque-de-lufr/      

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