English and Creative Writing: Recent submissions
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The Geopolitics of Language and Literature Migration
(Routledge, 2024)The notion of national languages, identifying a language with national unity, is a very modern idea, only about three centuries old and arising with the formation of modern nation-states. Before 1750, most people were bi- ... -
The People, the Masses, and the Educated Elite; or, Democracy in the Age of the Internet
(Cambridge University Press, 2024)One key puzzle of our moment is how economic elites of modern neoliberal states have come to be the people’s champions while educated citizens are labelled the new elites putatively against them. This chapter means to shed ... -
Deben Bhattacharya at the BBC, 1949–79: Cultural entrepreneurism, precarity, and the business of post-war folklore collection
(Routledge, 20 September 2023)Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001) had a prolific career as a field recordist that spanned the second half of the twentieth century. Yet his impressive contributions in radio, tv and film have to date been overlooked. Bhattacharya ... -
“Shakespeares Workes, and such Prelaticall trash”: Milton’s Shakespeare from the Philadelphia First Folio to the Political Prose
(Penn State University Press, 30 January 2023)How are we to connect the way that Milton uses Charles I’s love of Shakespeare against him in Eikonoklastes (1649) with the evidence of Milton’s own close appreciation of Shakespeare in his copy of the First Folio, recently ... -
Rabelais in the Whig World: Religious Persecution, Forced Migration, and the Politics of Literary Translation in Post-Revolutionary England
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024)