That’s a long long period, thence the caps. Not that there’s so very many people writing on medieval English literature any longer. But here goes the topic or thread, starting with this link in which I post a poem by Chaucer, “Truth” or Trouthe—one not everyone is familiar with: https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2010/10/trouthe.html

Well, surely Shakespeare is a major topic and area all by himself or together with his train of characters, colleagues, critics and followers. We may post all manner of things Shakespearean here, and I’ll begin with this YouTube channel, from Bob Jones University, which includes a number of good theatrical productions of Shakespeare plays:…[Read more]

Things relating to twentieth-century authors….. E.g. this paper on Maggie Gee:

Muñoz González, Esther. “Lost Children: Hearing the Past in the Silence of an Empty House.”  ES 38 (2017): 47-63. Online at Academia.* (Maggie Gee, 1994).         https://www.academia.edu/38764321/         2020

Here’s a thread on things decimononical, if I may use the term. This time on gender, Stuart Mill, Darwin, and Austen. I was going to say things Victorian, and well I might, since Jane Austen is somewhat of a Victorian before the Victorians. Perhaps they wouldn’t have been so very Victorian without her lessons. Anyway, the title of this 1st post is…[Read more]

Please find as an attachment the Call for Papers for the Special Issue
“Contemporary Fictions of Migration and Exile: Writing Diaspora in the
21st Century”. The deadline for submissions is 31 March 2021.

We are glad to share with you that September 15 is the new extended deadline for the  CFP for the II International Conference From Manuscript to Digital: World Wide English Literature and World Wide Literatures in English, organized by University of Lincoln, Universidade de Lisboa, and Universidad de Jaén. The conference will be held in J…[Read more]

Publisher: Brill Publishers (series, European Perspectives on the United States)

Working Title: The Platinum Age of American Television
Editor: Ben Alexander
Contact: Benalexander@fas.harvard.edu

See pdf attached.

We might post here some interesting video resources on English literature, e.g. YouTube channels, notable video lectures on English authors, etc.  Here’s today: an EngLit channel with lots of video lectures by J Newman:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8aHBlwgkXTPpQwdRvqTMig

Gender studies (feminist criticism, women or men’s studies, literature and sexuality etc.) has been a prominent interest in English literary studies in recent decades, and will presumably keep on that way. We might share here “things” we find relating to the subject or collection of subjects.   E.g. today this paper on Angela Carter:

Kaur, S…[Read more]

This is a reminder of the Call for Papers for issue number 16 of the journal Estudios Irlandeses, to be published in March 2021. Submissions that engage in a critical and original way with aspects of Irish literature, history, arts and the media should be sent tocontributions@estudiosirlandeses.org not later than 1 November 2020, following the…[Read more]