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    • Eugenic fictions and radical resistances 

      Richardson, A (Wiley, 27 December 2023)
      This paper considers the inspiration of Charles Darwin and J. S. Mill for writers and feminists at the end of the nineteenth century, tracing ways in which Darwin's anti-essentialism and his commitment to monogenism—the ...
    • The futures of English: Introduction from the UK 

      Gagnier, R (Wiley, 19 December 2023)
      Will students raised on social media still read English literature? What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India, Australasia, the USA? What is the role of English language in relation to other global ...
    • On the Road Again: Benjamin Malden and the Touring Lantern Lecturer 

      Plunkett, J (Brepols, 2024)
      Benjamin Malden (1838-1933) was regarded as the most successful touring lantern lecturer of the nineteenth-century in the UK, and he was arguably Britain’s most prestigious lecturer for a period from the early 1870s onwards. ...
    • Friendship and its logics in Amis and Amiloun 

      Kendall, E (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 

      Bastian, M; Flatø, EH; Baraitser, L; et al. (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 ...