Essays & Studies – 2024: Literature and Institutions of Welfare
Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present.
Organises grid of E&S issues at /essays-studies/
Essays & Studies – 2023: The Literature and Politics of the Environment
Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies.
Essays & Studies – 2022: The Waste Land After One Hundred Years
An exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact it had had upon criticism and new poetries across one hundred years.
Essays & Studies – 2021: The Literature of Hell
Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.
Essays & Studies – 2020: Literature and Ageing
New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.
Essays & Studies 2018: English: Shared Futures
Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education.
Essays & Studies 2017: Textual Distortion
The notion of what it means to “distort” a text is here explored through a rich variety of individual case studies.
Essays & Studies 2016: Writing China: Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.
Essays & Studies 2015: Writing Europe, 500-1450
Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages.