Louise Joy and Jessica Lim publish ‘Women’s Literary Education, 1690–1850’ (Edinburgh University Press)

Louise Joy and Jessica Lim publish Women’s Literary Education, 1690–1850 (Edinburgh University Press), an edited volume containing essays by English faculty colleagues including Jennifer Wallace, Rebecca Anne Barr and Jonathan Padley. The book brings together leading critical voices from a range of disciplines to examine the complex and significant ways in which female literary artists […]

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Conor McKee asks whether the ‘Tree of Charity’ is the right name for a celebrated passage from Piers Plowman in ‘The Yearbook of Langland Studies’

In passus B.XVI, the narrator of Piers Plowman is shown an allegorical tree to teach him what ‘charite is to mene’, yet despite the ‘Tree of Charity’ label which follows this passage in critical literature, in the B-text Langland never actually calls the tree itself ‘charity’ but rather ‘patience’. Conor McKee’s article looks at the […]

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Launch of ‘Migrant Ecologies’, a collaborative project between Cambridge University and Ashoka University

Prof. Subha Mukherji launches the collaborative project, Migrant Ecologies, with Martin Crowley (MML, Cambridge), Jonathan Gil Harris (Ashoka University) and Sumana Roy (Ashoka University), at Ashoka University, Delhi (India), from the 20th of March to the 4th of April. She gives a talk on ‘Migrant Forms’ at the opening symposium, ‘Migrant Ecologies’. This project is supported […]

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Prof. Michael Hurley lectures on ‘How to be Superstitious’

Prof. Michael Hurley lectures on ‘How to be Superstitious’ Lancaster University, 15 March 2023: Professor Hurley will address the Literature & Religion Reading Group. Modern society likes to think it is governed by entirely rational, evidence-based beliefs. But is this true? Or even desirable? Professor Hurley’s lecture explores the nature and counterintuitive value of ‘superstition’, […]

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