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.
Continue ReadingDo 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 […]
Continue ReadingAmy Bowles and Jitka Stollova: winner and runner-up of the Review of English Studies Essay Prize Competition
PhD student Amy Bowles has won the annual Review of English Studies Essay Prize Competition with a submission entitled ‘Dressing the Text: Ralph Crane’s Scribal Publication of Drama’. PhD student Jitka Stollova was a runner-up with an essay on the Beaumont and Fletcher folio and the London book trade in the 1640s and 50s. The […]
Continue ReadingHolly Corfield Carr wins Frieze Writer’s Prize
PhD student Holly Corfield-Carr has been announced the winner of the Frieze Writer’s Prize 2015 for her review of Katrina Palmer’s sound installation ’The Loss Adjusters’ which is the third part of her Artangel project ‘End Matter’ on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, UK. Holly is working on the piece as part of her […]
Continue ReadingPeter 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 ReadingBritish Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2015
The British Academy has announced its timetable for this year’s Postdoctoral Fellowships competition, with a first stage closing date of 5pm on 7th October. If you are thinking of making an application for a Fellowship at Cambridge in the Faculty of English or Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, we advise that you make informal […]
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 […]
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