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The Radical Restoration: Dworkin’s ‘Intercourse’ & Female Sexuality in the Seventeenth-Century
By Olivia Whitelaw Author Biography: Olivia Whitelaw is a recent graduate of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her...
Olivia Whitelaw
Oct 2, 20231 min read


In what ways do Northern Irish poets engage issues of Gender?
By Hollie Johnston Author Biography: Hollie Johnston is a fourth-year student studying French and English Literature who was born and...
Hollie Johnston
Oct 2, 20231 min read


Of Mimicry And (Wo)Man: The Location of Motherwork in Colonial Mimicry
By Prune Engérant Author Biography: Prune Engérant is a fourth year student at the University of Edinburgh, studying History of Art and...
Prune Engérant
Oct 2, 20231 min read


Authorial Presence within the Works of Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane
By Aimee Parrett Author Biography: Aimee Parrett is a fourth-year student of English Literature and History from Australia and Scotland....
Aimee Parrett
Oct 2, 20231 min read


The Dangers of Female Sexuality: Contagion, Infection, and Disease in Gothic Vampire Narratives
By Jasmine Niblett Author Biography: Jasmine Niblett is a 4th year English Literature and History student from Germany. Finishing up her...
Jasmine Niblett
Oct 2, 20231 min read


Eliot, Hughes, and Problems of Poetic Difficulty
By Will Staveley Author Biography: Will Staveley is a final year student at the University of Edinburgh, studying English Literature....
Will Staveley
Oct 2, 20231 min read


Aestheticized Violence and the ‘Amorous Catastrophe’
By Holly Elford Author Biography: Holly Elford is a final year English Literature student at the University of Edinburgh. Her interests...
Holly Elford
Oct 2, 20231 min read


Burdens of Imperialism in ‘The White Man’s Burden’, An Outpost of Progress, and A Passage to India
By Armaan Verma Author Biography: Armaan is a fourth-year student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested...
Armaan Verma
Oct 2, 20231 min read


The relationship between personal and cultural-historical memory in life-writing
By Chloe Jane Mansola Author Biography: Chloe Jane Mansola was born and grew up in Greece. She just finished her fourth year of English...
Chloe Jane Mansola
Oct 2, 20231 min read


“Haunt me, then!”: Haunting as Symbolic Survival in the Gothic Literary Consciousness
By Olivia Whitelaw Author Biography: Olivia Whitelaw is a recent graduate of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her...
Olivia Whitelaw
Oct 2, 20232 min read


How do Madame Bovary, Notes from the Underground, and Middlemarch explore the nature of freedom?
By Lucie-Ly Mey Author Biography: Lucie-Ly Mey is a third-year Celtic and English literature student at the University of Edinburgh, also...
Lucie-Ly Mey
Oct 2, 20231 min read


Englishmen in the Contact Zone: A Close Reading of Gulliver’s Travels and The Rover
By August Enger Author Biography: August Enger is an undergraduate student of English Literature and History at the University of...
August Enger
Oct 2, 20231 min read


Degeneration and the Disease Motif in Woolf’s Pearls and Swine and London’s Good-by, Jack
By Armaan Verma Author Biography: Armaan Verna is a fourth-year student of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He is...
Armaan Verma
Oct 2, 20231 min read
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