Dr Sarah Dillon’s new book, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film is published this month with Edinburgh University Press. The writings of Jacques Derrida have had a profound but complex influence on both film studies and on feminism. In the first work of its kind, Deconstruction, Feminism, Film explores the interconnections between these three fields through detailed filmic and philosophical close […]
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Dr M E J Hughes’s The Pepys Library and the Historic Collections of Magdalene College Included in TLS Review
Dr M E J Hughes’s new book on the library of Samuel Pepys is included in an article about current interest in the diarist published in the recent TLS: Eye on posterity (March 16). The article by the historian Arnold Hunt shows how recent scholarship has opened up the study of Pepys as a reader […]
Continue ReadingMedieval into Renaissance – Essays for Helen Cooper
Published this month: Medieval into Renaissance – Essays for Helen Cooper. A festschrift for Professor Helen Cooper, former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English. The collection builds on and responds to the work of Professor Cooper, exploring the connections and intersections between medieval and renaissance literature. Edited by Andrew King & Matthew Woodcock Includes an essay by Dr […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee Publishes New book: Shakespeare in Swahililand
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee’s new book Shakespeare in Swahililand is published on 10 March with HarperCollins. The launch party takes place at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, also on 10 March. Shakespeare in Swahililand is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the part played by Shakespeare’s works in […]
Continue ReadingDr Ian Patterson Publishes New Book of Poems: Time Dust
Dr Ian Patterson’s new book of poems, Time Dust (Equipage, 2015), is launched with a reading at Heffer’s, Cambridge, on Wednesday 24 February 2016.
Continue ReadingDr Raphael Lyne Publishes New Book: Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature
Dr Raphael Lyne’s new book Memory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature is published in February 2016 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Using ideas from cognitive science this work sets up some new ways of thinking about how poems remember one another, but keeps coming back to the idea that the poems and plays are themselves essays and […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee at Bath Festival of Literature
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee speaks to author and broadcaster Jenni Mills about his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand at the Independent Bath Festival of Literature on Thursday 3 March, from 4.30 to 5.30. Shakespeare in Swahililand, published on 10 March with HarperCollins, is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the […]
Continue ReadingProfessor John Kerrigan Publishes New Book: ‘Shakespeare’s Binding Language’
Professor John Kerrigan’s new book Shakespeare’s Binding Language will be published this month with Oxford University Press. The work, a state-of-the-art intervention into Shakespeare studies, offers a transformative account of a large number of Shakespeare’s plays. Making interdisciplinary use of historical, legal, and religious sources, Shakespeare’s Binding Language engages with new ideas about performance and ‘performativity’. “a massive, complicated and brilliant interpretation […]
Continue ReadingDr Bonnie Lander Johnson publishes Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture
Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson’s new book Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture is published with Cambridge University Press. In the book, Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to political, medical, theological and moral debates, and that it was also a virtue that governed […]
Continue ReadingThe 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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