Jennifer Wallace’s first novel ‘Digging Up Milton’ is published by Cillian Press. The book’s launch is on the 1st October, St Giles Church, Cripplegate, London.
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Peter De Bolla Wins Robert Lowry Patten Award
We congratulate Professor Peter de Bolla, who has won the annual Robert Lowry Patten Award, awarded by the journal SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 for the most outstanding recent contribution to British literary studies of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. The award is for his book The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of […]
Continue ReadingWondering what to pack for university? A guitar, perhaps, for the “refresshynge of the witte”?
What to take to university is a question foremost in the minds of thousands of freshers up and down the country. Prof. Christopher Page’s latest book The Guitar in Tudor England reveals that 16th century students faced similar dilemmas – though their packing lists were rather different. In the hands of an amorous young man, […]
Continue ReadingWriting Europe, 500-1450
Dr Orietta Da Rold has contributed to a new book, Writing Europe, 500-1450. Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred on manuscript studies and textual criticism, which explore these issues from a pan-European perspective. […]
Continue ReadingChristopher Tilmouth & Katrin Ettenhuber Plenary Lectures – Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700
Katrin Ettenhuber and Christopher Tilmouth delivered plenary lectures at University of Sussex Centre for Early Modern and Medieval Studies Postgraduate ‘Literature and Philosophy 1500-1700’ conference. This conference explored the relationship between early modern literature and philosophical thought, theories and issues and took place between the 14th and 16th of July. Dr Tilmouth’s lecture was entitled […]
Continue ReadingNovel Thoughts
Literature and science may seem like opposite ends of the spectrum, but reading can have an impact on even the most scientific of brains. A new film series reveals the reading habits of eight Cambridge scientists and peeks inside the covers of the books that have played a major role in their lives. The Novel […]
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Dr Ross Wilson
Dr Ross Wilson has been awarded the Crausaz Wordsworth Fellowship at CRASSH for Michaelmas term 2015. The Fellowship is awarded to academic staff in Cambridge who are not members of the Faculty of Philosophy to work on a philosophical topic. His project is entitled ‘The Hidden Seed of Survival: The Lives of Artworks in Benjamin […]
Continue ReadingThe Word-Hoard: Robert Macfarlane on Rewilding our Language of Landscape
We have forgotten 10,000 words for our landscapes, but we will make 10,000 more, given time and inclination. Dr Robert Macfarlane examines the plethora of words we use for weather and landscape in The Guardian.
Continue ReadingDr Gavin Alexander Keynote at ‘Speaking Pictures: Poetry, the Arts of Discourse and the Discourse of the Arts in Early Modern England’
Dr Gavin Alexander presented a keynote: ‘Of proportion poetical: order, form, decorum, and analogy in early modern poetry and poetics’, at a one-day colloquium ‘Speaking Pictures: Poetry, the Arts of Discourse and the Discourse of the Arts in Early Modern England’, Universidad de Huelva, Spain, 31 October 2014.
Continue ReadingIrene Samuel Memorial Award
Young Milton: The Emerging Author, 1620-1642 (Oxford University Press), ed. Edward Jones, to which Faculty members Christopher Tilmouth and Andrew Zurcher both contributed chapters, has won the Milton Society of America’s Irene Samuel Memorial Award for 2013.
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