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Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Mary Shelley's Grave

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On this day in 1851 Mary Shelley died, her cause of death recorded as 'Disease of the brain Supposed Tumour in left hemispher...
Friday, 6 January 2017

Going Underground: Literary Adventures in Subterranean Spaces

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Although I started out my career exclusively as a Romanticist, I do now occasionally like to venture a little further into the nineteenth c...
Thursday, 8 December 2016

The Last Man: A Post-Apocalyptic Opera

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Regular readers of this blog will know that one of my major research interests is Romantic literature that depicts the Last Man on earth f...
Wednesday, 5 October 2016

English Outreach: Digitising Jane Austen's Fiction Manuscripts

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Jane Austen's 'History of England' (1790-93) I have a long-standing interest in academic outreach, and am always pleased t...
Monday, 23 May 2016

Frankenstein: A New Ballet

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Image:  © British Library When I first heard that the Royal Opera House was planning to stage Frankenstein as a ballet I was hugely...
Thursday, 21 April 2016

Journal Lists: Reading Literature in Serial Form

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January 1891 issue of All the Year Round When I teach the likes of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to my undergraduates, I always en...
Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Celebrating International Women's Day with the Romantics

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Happy International Women’s Day ! I’ve seen quite a few articles today that – quite rightly – highlight the achievements and struggles of c...