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 ReadingSamuel Johnson Prize Longlist
Congratulations to Dr Robert Macfarlane, who has made the long-list for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction with his book Landmarks. Read more from the guardian here. See also reviews in: The Observer The Guardian The Telegraph The Irish Times The Spectator Times Higher Education The London Review of Books Publishing Director of Hamish Hamilton […]
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 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.
Continue ReadingProf Steven Connor on The Verb, 14 March 2014
Professor Steven Connor will be talking about his new book, Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalisations, on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb at 22.00, Friday 14th March. See also: The Times The Times Literary Supplement Textual Practice
Continue ReadingForgotten Poems Recovered by American Civil War Research
American Civil War poetry that sheds light on a neglected chapter of the era’s literary history has been recovered and made freely available online after 150 years. The ground-breaking edition of poems, including many pieces by little-known African American writers, has been published online following extensive research by Dr Rebecca Weir at the University of […]
Continue ReadingRob Macfarlane Shortlisted for Warwick Prize
Dr Rob Macfarlane’s book, The Old Ways, has been shortlisted for the Warwick University Prize for Writing. Read more via BBC news, the Telegraph & the Guardian.
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