Current Contents
Issue 10 2015 / Issue 9 2014 / Issue 8 2013 / Issue 7 2012 / Issue 6 2011 / Issue 5 2010 / Issue 4 2009 / Issue 3 2008 / Issue 2 2007 / Issue 1 2006
Issue 11 2018
Essays
Barbara Cooke and Ben Parsons: Introduction
Yun Pei: Exile at Home — Anxiety and Aspiration in Wordsworth’s ‘Home at Grasmere’
Jeremy Diaper: Must England’s Beauty Perish?: The Literary Ruralism of the Criterion
Suzannah V. Evans: ‘Let’s take a walk’: Frank O’Hara the Flâneur
Richard Vytniorgu: Democracy in English Education: The Future of the English PhD
Tommi Kakko: A Note on the Nashe Problem
Issue 10 2015
Essays
Emily Bowles and Emma Butcher: Introduction: (Re)Negotiating Victorian Biography: Subversion and Appropriation in Late Victorian and Twentieth-Century Life Writing
Janine Hatter: Childhood Disrupted: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Unfinished Autobiography 'Before the Knowledge of Evil'
Matthew Crofts: Flashman and the Art of the Fictional Autobiography
Kathy Rees: Edmund Gosse's Father and Son: Renegotiating Biography Through Illustration
Anna Maria Barry: 'The Singer's Work is a Picture Painted on Air': Operatic Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century
Jamie Spears: Reclaiming Passed Lives: The Autobiographical Accounts of Spiritualist Women
Ellen Ricketts: The Fractured Pageant: Queering Lesbian Lives in the Early Twentieth Century
Pedagogies
Matthew A. Fike: UFOs, Sufficiency and Sceptical Materialism in a Critical Thinking Manual
Issue 9 2014
This issue reproduces papers given at the Time and Space in Contemporary Women's Writing Conference held at the University of Hull in 2011.
Essays
Claire O'Callaghan and Alex Pryce: The Past, Present and Future of Time and Space in Contemporary Women's Writing: Introduction
Gwyneth Lewis: Preface - Making Time for Creativity in Criticism
James Bailey: Life and Death in the Tense Present: Time, Narrative and Doomed Deduction in Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat
Arina Cristea: A Space of One's Own: Reading Michele Roberts' Urban Imaginary
Alex Pryce: Ambiguous Silences? Women in Anthologies of Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry
Emily Dickinson: 'Trash Always Rises': Regionalism and Violence in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina
Libe García Zarranz: 'The Whole City's Our Bawdy-House, My Lass': Affective Spaces and Disoriented Bodies in Dionne Brand and Emma Donoghue's Fictions
Claire O'Callaghan: Sarah Waters's Victorian Domestic Spaces; or, The Lesbians in the Attic
Issue 8 2013
Essays
Peter Auger: Contemporary Analogues to Josuah Sylvester's 'Devine Weekes'
Allen Mendenhall: From Natural Law to Natural Inferiority: The Construction of Racist Jurisprudence in Early Virginia
Jennifer Cole: Does 'Imagism' Mean Anything? Ezra Pound and 'Des Imagistes'
Avishek Parui: 'Exploring Hands Encounter No Defence': The Episteme of Violence and Consumption in 'The Waste Land'
Nimmi Jayathurai: Dying Fathers, Emergent Mothers: Reading 'Wise Children' Through the Eyes of The Laughing Medusa
Yun-Hua Hsiao: From War to Peace: Maxine Hong Kingston's 'Tripmaster Monkey', 'The Fifth Book of Peace' and ' I Love a Broad Margin to My Life'
Michael J. Martin: Beyond Books of Wonder: The Hope Without Promise Narrative of 9/11
Eugenia Russell: The Use of Learning Styles Theory in the Humanities: Towards Instructor-Friendly Solutions?
Reviews
Tony Venezia on Literature of the 1980s: After the Watershed by Joseph Brooker
Jeremy Diaper on Modernism by Michael Levenson
Issue 7 2012
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Essays
Alice Crossley: The Rising Generation: Male Adolescence in Victorian Literature and Culture
Ben Parsons: To Sir With Loathing: Student Revenge Fantasies in Middle English Lyrics
Gavan Lennon: A Man, And A Good Man: Youth and Misdirection in William Faulkner's The Reivers
Ulduz Mashaykh: Generation X and Happiness TM: From Cynical Losers to Materialistic Pricks?
Charles Nixon: David Foster Wallace's Adolescent Depression: Recursivity, Biography and Post-Modernism
Isobel Gutteridge: 'I Feel So Sorry for Celebrities: I Mean They Have to Worry About their Wrinkles!' (Lola, aged 10): Pre-Teenage Girls and Celebrity Culture
Alison Waller: Youth Paused: Epiphanies in the Seed-Time of Life
Reviews
Rebecca Fisher on Murray McGillivray's A Gentle Introduction to Old English and Old English Reader
Natalie Jones on Joseph Black's Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Medieval Period and British Literature: An Historical Overview
Martin Dubois on Jonathan Robert's Wordsworth. Blake. Religion.
Waka Ishikura on Sue Chaplin and Joel Faflak's Romanticism Handbook
Nazia Parveen on Ruth Robbins' Oscar Wilde
Tony Venezia on Ben Saunders' Do Gods Wear Capes?
Issue 6 2011
Essays
Eugenia Russell: Sources and Themes for the Study of the Cult of Saints in the Middle Ages: The Case of St Demetrius
Jamie McKinstry: 'Blait Mouit Blad.eanes With Bladder Cheikis': Dirty Politics and the Poetry of Wililam Dunbar
Carla Della Gatta: Constructing Shylock: Post-Theatre Talks as Secondary Performance
Ged Pope: Suburban Stuff and Realism
Jeanne-Marie Jackson: The Spaces Between and Beyond the Law: Sentimental Construct in Cry, the Beloved Country
Klara Szmanko: Alien and Haunting Whiteness in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior
James Aubrey: 'For Me Alone Paul Rayment Was Born': Slow Man, Don Quixote and the Literature of Replenishment
Stacy Denton: The Meaning of Local Hierarchies in Contemporary Rural US Fiction
Alan Ashton-Smith: The Invaded Home in Ian McEwan's Solar and Saturday
Review Essays
Rory Waterman on Recent Work in Twentieth Century Poetry
Alexandra Pryce on Recent Work in Women's Studies
Reviews
Anna Gottschall on Cate Gunn and Catherine Innes-Parker, Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care: Essays in Honour of Bella Millett
Sonia Suman on Christopher Brooks, Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England
Martin Dubois on Magnus Ankarsjo, William Blake and Religion: A New Critical Review
Anthony Williams on John Williams, Wordsworth in Germany
Tommi Kakko on Gabriel Josipovisi, What Ever Happened to Modernism?
Issue 5 2010
This issue reproduces papers given at the Lost in Translation postgraduate conference held at the University of Leicester in 2009.
Essays
Anjina Chouhan: Redeeming Shakespeare's Sins: Measure for Measure and Wilson Barrett's The Sign of the Cross
Chloe Buckley: Neil Gaiman's 'New Mother' 1882-2002: How Coraline 'Translates' Victorian Fantasy
Danny O'Connor: 'The Horror of Creation': Ted Hughes's Re-Writing of Genesis in Crow
Simon Robinson: I'll Go On: Paul Auster's Dialogue with Samuel Beckett
Sally Dugan: Anarchy and Magic: Film Versions of the Scarlet Pimpernel Myth
Georgina Collins: The Translator as Mediator: Interpreting 'Non'Standard' French in Senegalese Women's Literature
John McKay: A Version of Scotland: Don Paterson and Tom Leonard's Translations
Dennis Duncan: Form and Anxiety in Translation: Two Case Studies
Katherine Heavey: How to Lose Friends and Influence People: John Dryden and the Art of Insulting Other People's Translations
Matt Hayler: Translating to Digital: What Changes When Nothing Changes?
Issue 4 2009
Essays
Chrysavgi Papagianni: History in White and Black: Euzhan Paley's A Dry White Season
Tony Venezia: Archive of the Future: Alan Moore's Watchmen as Historiographic Novel
Jessica Gildersleeve: Regarding Violence in Pat Barker's Double Vision
Diane Todd Bucci: Blood and Iron: Negotiating a Hybrid Identity in Anzie Yezierska's Bread Givers
Jane Mansfield: Nostalgia for Places: The Brontes and Elizabeth Gaskell
Christina Fawcett: Materiality and Omission: Swift's Narrator and The Tale of a Tub
Pedagogies
Peiling Zhao: Pedagogy of Intersubjectivity: Constructing Subject-to-Subject Relationships Through the Critical Use of Emotion
Anna Faktorovich: Teaching Hypertext Archival Research
Ronald C. Thomas: A Thought-Piece: Thanks for the F
Review Essay
Hazel Mackenzie on recent studies of Dickens
Reviews
Natalie Jones on Jill Bradley's 'You Shall Surely Not Die': The Concepts of Sin and Death as Expressed in the Manuscript Art of Northwestern Europe, c.800-1200
Jamie Whitehead on Robert James Allard's Romanticism, Medicine,and the Poet's Body
Jane Mansfield on Angelia Poon's Entering Englishness in the Victorian Period
Martin Dubois on Anna Barton's Tennyson's Name: Identity and Responsibility
Nathan Waddell on Stanley Fish's Save the World on Your Own Time
Issue 3 2008
Essays
Lief Bull: Drained Discourses of the Everyday in Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road
Abigail Dennis: Co-Opting the Crinoline: Neo-Victorian Feminism and the Politics of Appropriative Meaning
Waka Ishikura: 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison': Coleridge's Scientific View of Life in his Conversation with Thelwell
Kristin Moriah: In the Shadow of the Negro: Minstrelsy, Race and Performance in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
Gavin Murray-Miller: In the Land of the Lotus Eaters: Colonial Travel and the Ambiguities of Colonial Representation in French Algeria, 1830-70
Natalie Pollard: Civil Voices: On Reading Geoffrey Hill Reading
Adam Pacton: Perusing the Parousia: A Formalist Reading of W.B. Yeats's The Second Coming
Pedagogies
David Heckerl: Returning Home to Polyphony: Michael Oakeshott's Modal Pluralism and the Recovery of Liberal Education
Matthew A. Fike: Thinking Metaphysically: The Challenge to Fundamentalism n the Works of Robert A. Monroe
Siobhan Craft Brownson: Ethical Criticism in the Classroom
Michael J. Martin: Where is the Revolution?: Beat Literature and the Contemporary American Classroom
Review Essay
Paul Joyce on Recent Joyce Studies
Reviews
Adelene Buckland on Recent Darwin Studies
Rhian Williams on Matthew Bevis's The Art of Eloquence
Elizabeth Ludlow on Dinah Roe's Christina Rossetti's Faithful Imagination
Christopher Marlow on Grant and Ravelhofer's English Historical Drama
Issue 2 2007
Essays
Rachel Buxton: Muldoon's Refrains
Charlotte Boyce: Reading Recipes: The Victorian Cookery Book and its Fictional Analogues
Tara Stubbs: New Readings of Marianne Moore's Spenser's Ireland (1941)
Eli Park Sorensen: Arcades of Foreignness: J.M. Coetzee's Foe
Sandro Jung: William Collins's Odes: Descritpion and the 'Silent Eye'
Alexander J. Marshall: '... a matter of limbs, members and organs': Saul Bellow's Swiftian Forays
Erik Grayson: 'On a large scale:': Don DeLillo's Cold War Carnival
Pedagogies
W. Keith Duffy: Sound Arguments: Composing Words and Music
Matthew A. Fike: A Jungian Interpretation of an Urban Myth in Critical Thinking Class
Poems
Gregory Woods
Review Essays
Christopher Pittard: Tracing the Downward Path: Degeneration of the Victorian fin de siecle
Holly Furneaux: Boy Called Twist and the Social Conscience of Dickens Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century
Reviews
Jennifer Jones on Michael Davis's George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology
Beth Palmer on Kirstie Blair's Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart
Issue 1 2006
Articles
Taek-Gwang Lee: Realism without Lukacs
Kate McLoughlin: Adynaton: A War Topos
Christopher Marlow: Friendship, Misogny and Anti-Theatrical Prejudice: The Difference of The Rivall Friends
Gregory A. Wilson: ‘His own portion of the earth’: The Rhetoric of Alienation and Separation in Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas
Thought Piece
Matthew A. Fike: The Role of the Unconscious in the Writing Process
Review Essays
Kathryn Crowther: Reading Time: Capturing the Moment in Victorian Periodicals, Prose and Poetry
Lawrence P. Morris: Saints in Society: Recent Approaches to Early English Hagiography
Reviews
Cindy Childress on Peter Haidu’s The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages
Martin Delveaux on Angelique Richardson’s Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman
Amanda Mordavsky on Gary Lachman’s The Dedalus Book of the Occult:A Dark Muse
Christopher Pittard on Lawrence Frank’s Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens and Doyle
Simon Stow on Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others
Ting Man Tsao on Carlos Hiraldo’s Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the U.S. and Latin American Literary Traditions