English and Creative Writing: Recent submissions
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Elective Affinities: Tristan Tzara and Jean Cocteau Against the Grain
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“Lusitania weeps forlorn”: Portugal and melancholic nationhood in British literature of the Peninsular War
(Routledge, 2024)Whilst recent Romantic scholarship has shown how Iberia rose to prominence as an imaginative Other for British nationhood during the Napoleonic Wars, accounts overwhelmingly concentrate on Spain. Nevertheless, Anglo-Portuguese ... -
"Qaysar-i Hindustan Vikturiya": Negotiating loyalty in later Nineteenth-Century Parsi laudatory verse
(Cambridge University Press, 15 April 2024)To mark Queen Victoria's jubilee celebrations, many Indian authors composed laudatory literature and music in their vernacular languages. Although these works were often dismissed as “enthusiastic effusions” from poets of ... -
“In Cairo also I worried my archaeological friends”: J. Norman Lockyer and Archaeoastronomy
(UC Santa Barbara, 18 March 2024)It has long been acknowledged that J. Norman Lockyer played a central role in the foundation of archaeoastronomy as a field in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His interest in “orientation” flourished on ... -
Waiting with Beckett in the Anthropocene
(Edinburgh University Press, 1 April 2024)This article asks what we might make of Samuel Beckett’s persistent aesthetic and ethical commitment to waiting during a moment shot through with calls to action in the face of extinction events and climate catastrophe. ...