English and Creative Writing: Recent submissions
Now showing items 21-25 of 63
-
"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 ... -
“Lusitania weeps forlorn”: Portugal and melancholic nationhood in British literature of the Peninsular War
(Routledge, 26 February 2025)While 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 ... -
“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, 25 June 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. ... -
The People in Marvell and Cavendish
(Oxford University Press, 29 February 2024)