The Manuscripts Lab

A new collaborative project ‘The Manuscripts Lab’ has just been launched. The Lab provides a virtual space for academics, students and anyone interested in the handwritten culture to share ideas, findings, and resources for teaching and research about manuscripts. It intends to embrace manuscript studies across a broad geographical and temporal spread. The lab welcomes contributions about projects, events and […]

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MLA Prize for Catherine Phillips for Hopkins Letters

The Modern Language Association of America today announced it will award the thirteenth Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters.  The winning edition is The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, volumes 1 and 2: Correspondence, edited by R. K. R. Thornton, of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Catherine Phillips, […]

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The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice

Drs Trudi Tate and Kate Kennedy publish a new edited collection of essays looking at the legacy of the First World War through the lens of the creative arts. As a specialist in the literature of conflict, Dr Tate explores the ways in which writers expressed the impact of trauma on families – and child rearing […]

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Do rave reviews on book covers count as literary criticism?

Dr Ross Wilson discusses the nature of the rave review in The New Statesman and asks whether it counts as criticism. Getting to put “Booker Prize Winner” and, perhaps, a puff from the panel of judges on your dust-jacket is priceless. But can puffing – the practice of lauding a book’s merits in a few […]

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