English and Creative Writing: Recent submissions
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Falling over with Frances Burney
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Lady Ribblesdale’s Play: Comic Witchcraft in a Victorian Family Drama, Lancashire Witches (1877–1878) by Emma Lister
(Penn State University Press, 13 January 2025)In 1877–1878 the British baroness Emma Lister, Lady Ribblesdale, wrote a two-act comedy drama about the Pendle witches of 1612. The play is unknown and highly unusual in its representation of witches, which it relates to ... -
Communicating the Devil
(Routledge, 2025)This chapter surveys representations of the devil and demons in popular, oral, theatrical and literary culture, including sermons, poetry, drama, demonology and reportage in expository prose. It examines the relationships ... -
An early moving picture industry? Exhibition networks and the panorama 1810-1850
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025)In the first decades of the nineteenth-century, London audiences enjoyed a burgeoning number of shows and lectures. However, this rich exhibition culture, and the scholarly attention given to it, has overshadowed the ... -
Book review: Jay A. Labinger, Connecting Literature and Science. Routledge, 2022
(Johns Hopkins University Press / Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, 7 November 2024)