Equal As We Are
I'm on Radio 4 today! At 1.45 p.m. you can catch playwright Laura Wade and me discussing George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, as part of Equal As We Are, a 10-part series about gender relations in literature
Research 2.0
Oxford is enjoying the long vac. This is the academic summer holiday; the period running from the end of 8th week Trinity (usually in late June), to October and Freshers’ Week. It is also the period to which proper academics refer as “time for getting some real work done”. I’m doing my best. I’ve handed…
CfP: Production and Consumption in Victorian Literature and Culture
Victorian Network is an MLA-indexed (from 2012) online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies. The fifth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr Ella Dzelzainis (Newcastle University), is dedicated to a reassessment of nineteenth-century investments in concepts of productivity and consumption. Accelerating industrialisation, the growth of consumer…
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Thesis Wordles
Inspired by a conversation I had with Alex, when handing in our writing samples last Thursday, here are the results of some playing around with Wordle. My latest submission:My latest thesis outline: And, finally, that AHRC proposal!
Call To Register: Oxford English Graduate Conference “The Famed and The Forgotten”
Registration is now open for The Famed and The Forgotten, taking place on 10th June in Oxford University’s English Faculty. 45 student speakers from Oxford and around the UK will be delivering papers on the concepts of ‘famed’ and ‘forgotten’, interrogated in the broadest possible terms across genres and periods encompassing Old English to the…
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How’s your thesis going?
People In My Thesis With Appalling Daddy Issues: 1. Edward Gordon Craig (re: Irving) 2. H. B. Irving (INEVITABLE) 3. Fanny Kemble (re: J P Kemble), and 4. Helen Faucit, OH MY GOD, Helen Faucit, apparently she had it with Charles Kemble and Macready. I cannot tell you how happy this makes me, I love…
Constance Benson in “Unreasonable Harpy” shock.
I am still at home. My poor parents are currently watching me write a chapter of my Masters thesis. Working on coursework at home is always fraught – you don’t feel quite able to descend into the maelstrom of skank, lunacy and botched cicadian rhythms that have previously characterised your writing experiences in college, but…
Eleanor Marx, George Bernard Shaw & Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
Before its June 1889 premiere at the Novelty Theatre, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was twice staged in the capital; once in 1885, and once in 1886. In 1886, it was given in a private performance in a Bloomsbury lodging-house, with George Bernard Shaw as Krogstad, and ELEANOR MARX as Nora. ELEANOR MARX (interesting 2005 article…
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g. b. shaw: the pillars of society are cracking and the ruin of the State at hand!
No author who has ever known the exultation of sending the Press into an hysterical tumult of protest, of moral panic, of involuntary and frantic confession of sin, of a horror of conscience in which the power of distinguishing between the work of art on the stage and the real life of the spectator is…
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