English and Creative Writing
Recent Submissions
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Friendship and its logics in Amis and Amiloun
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023)The poet of Amis and Amlioun took a well-known story of soul-deep friendship and made it one about a naive sworn brotherhood which matures into a bond of reciprocated help. Against the grain of existing criticism, this ... -
Ethical conference economies? Reimagining the costs of convening academic communities when moving online
(Wiley / The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), 20 November 2023)Online conferences are widely thought to reduce many of the costs of convening academic communities. From lower carbon emissions, lower fees, less difficulty in attending (particularly for marginalised researchers), and ... -
Language of Intermediality: Merging Arts, Cultures and Literature
(International Journal of Languages Literature and Linguistics, 1 June 2023)The paper demonstrates through specific examples the peculiarities of intermedial ‘language’ employed by E.M. Forster to enlarge the contextual field of his novel Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905). Thus, through the ... -
The Problems of Performing Piety in some Exeter Dissenting Sermons c. 1660–1745
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)This essay explores the theme of hypocrisy in a multi-volume collection of hitherto unstudied manuscript sermons by Exeter Dissenting ministers from the Restoration to the mid-eighteenth century held by the Devon and Exeter ... -
Grey Time: Anchromism and Waiting for Beckett
(Edinburgh University Press, 30 October 2023)