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The Nightmare of Dracula’s Female Vampires
Read the full article here: Although Count Dracula is undoubtedly one of the most iconic literary figures of monstrosity in popular...
Claudia Ramage
Mar 2, 20221 min read


Transgression and Subversion: Gender Hierarchies in 'Twelfth Night' and 'Paradise Lost'
Read the full article here: Within John Milton’s Paradise Lost and William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, themes of gender and sexuality...
Simi Prasad
Mar 2, 20221 min read


Satirising Courtly Love in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Parliament of Fowls
In ‘Satire and Irony as Means of Communication’, Jean Weisgerber argues that satire is not only a device specific to text but a form of...
Aarushi Marde
Mar 2, 20221 min read


Conversations with the Supernatural in the Works of Washington Irving and Mary Shelley
Conversations with the Supernatural: Imagination, Satire and Ambiguous Fantasy in the Works of Washington Irving and Mary Shelley Read...
Willow Courtauld
Mar 2, 20221 min read


Frustration, Terror and Rage: The Politics of Dissent during the Reign of Henry VIII
Read the full article here: Literature of the Henrician period is inherently reflective of the toxic political culture in which it was...
Matthew Tyrer
Mar 2, 20221 min read


Liminal Horizons: Time in Contemporary Queer Fiction
Read the full article here: In his essay Queerness as a Horizon, Muñoz defines the act of queering time as “stepping out of the linearity...
Olivia Szczerbakiewicz
Mar 2, 20221 min read


Relationality and Resistance in Bhanu Kapil’s and Florence Peake’s ‘Grounded’ Performances
Read the full article here: The mother of ecofeminist Performance Art as we know it today, Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta recognised...
Rory Buccheri
Mar 2, 20222 min read


‘Under that Veil Conceal the Irregularities of her Heart’
‘Under that Veil Conceal the Irregularities of her Heart’: Criticisms of Women’s Conduct Literature through the Gothic Veil Motif in...
Beth Campbell
Mar 2, 20221 min read


‘The unreality of our reality’
‘The unreality of our reality’: Elizabeth Bishop’s conflicting presentations of objects in Geography III. Read the full article here: In...
Charlotte Le Gresley
Mar 2, 20221 min read


Fashioning the Self: Cross-dressing and Invention in The Roaring Girl
Read the full article here: To 'know', or 'studie', oneself was a dominant concern of the Early Modern period. Scepticism and self-doubt...
Eva Hudson
Mar 2, 20222 min read


Here’s why Literacy Cannot Guarantee Liberation…
Read the full article here: Literacy’s empowering potential may make Frederick Douglass’ arguments about reading and writing appear...
Funmi Lijadu
Mar 2, 20221 min read


Is The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer a Consolation?
Read the full article here: The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer is a medieval dream vision written between the years 1368 and...
Samantha Lo
Mar 2, 20222 min read


Censorship of Theatre in a “Theatre of Censorship”
Censorship of Theatre in a “Theatre of Censorship”: Interrogating the Multivalent Sources of Censorship on the British Stage Read the...
Hubert Yeo
Mar 2, 20222 min read


Intersectionalities of sexuality and race in Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin & Zami by Audre Lorde
Read the full article here: In Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Zami) and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, the...
Eleonora Soteriou
Mar 2, 20221 min read
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