Writing prompts to generate images combines two literary tasks at once: the realist description of concrete things and the modernist evocation of atmosphere.
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Literary podcasts are like year-round writers festivals – and there’s an Australian one out there for every taste, from occasional readers to bonafide bookworms.
Henry James’ ‘The Princess Casamassima’ tells a story of political radicalism in a time of economic inequality. But even James ran up against the limits of putting himself in the mind of a killer.
A much talked-about scene from the latest Netflix horror raises important questions about how the Bible deals with mental health.
Be they ghosts or her mind playing tricks? The uncertainty is the draw of the 1898 classic The Turn of the Screw.
BBC One’s The Living and the Dead revels in the Victorians’ obsession with the supernatural and the limits of science.
Like it or not, the literary canon is part of the cultural capital of the West. Universities that choose not to teach it – or refuse to critically engage with it – are actually disempowering students.
For too long the Scottish writer was seen as a populist pedlar of boy’s own adventures. This didn’t happen by accident.
The American writer remains as elusive 100 years after his death as he was at the time.
When Henry James renounced his American citizenship in 1915 in response to his country’s inaction, he spearheaded a movement of writers who refused to sit on the sidelines amid turmoil in Europe.
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Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of English Literature, Edinburgh Napier University
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Cadbury Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, De Montfort University
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Researcher, School of Art, Communication and English, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, Boston University
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Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Birmingham
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PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, Western University