English and Creative Writing: Recent submissions
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The Problems of Performing Piety in some Exeter Dissenting Sermons c. 1660–1745
(Cambridge University Press / Ecclesiastical History Society, 23 May 2024)This essay explores the theme of hypocrisy in a multi-volume collection of hitherto unstudied manuscript sermons by Exeter Dissenting ministers from the Restoration to the mid-eighteenth century held by the Devon and Exeter ... -
Grey Time: Anchromism and Waiting for Beckett
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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 ...