How does one look at a flat landscape? Alternatively: how does one attend to something which cannot, or declines to, offer any focal points? And why might one want or need to? In this talk – the draft conclusion to my new monograph on flat landscapes in twentieth-century literature – I suggest that the authors…
This lecture will focus on the genealogical and heraldic visualisations of Cheshire landowner Humphrey Newton (1466-1536) and his family. It will explore the use of visuals and diagrams in the writings of a gentry family on the cusp of the late medieval and early modern periods with particular focus on the visualisation of genealogy. Carefully…
The paper will look at recent representations of the figure of the literary critic and situate them in relation to the history of thinking about the purpose and place of literary criticism within democratic societies, as well in relation to accounts of the role of the discipline by Joseph North, Rita Felski, John Guillory and…
Laura Fox Gill is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln, specialising in Romantic and Victorian literature with a focus on image-text relations and the intermedial influence of John Milton. Milton’s twentieth-century critical reception might be characterised as contentious. This reputational shift can be illustrated by two very different responses to the last two books…
The poet, balladeer, and collagist Helen Adam (1909-1993) charted an uncommon course through the twentieth century. Drawing from extensive personal archives at the University of Buffalo, this paper will serve as an introduction to Adam’s life and work. She is out of print and critically neglected. It will also examine Adam’s bipartite career as a…
Women in white are ubiquitous in Gothic fiction and film, from the eighteenth-century illustrations to Ann Radcliffe’s novels, to the folk costumes of Midsommar and the plantation chic of Beyonce’s Lemonade. The popular perception of the white dress is that it represents purity and virginity — absence of sexuality, absence of colour. This paper challenges…
English Research Seminar
English Research Seminar.
English Research Seminar
English Research Seminar