What the Authors Say

20th Century

• The Poems and Plays of Isaac Rosenberg
  Dr Vivien Noakes is the editor of a new definitive edition of Rosenberg's poetry and plays published by the Oxford University Press.

19th Century

• John Bowen on Dickens's early fiction:
  John Bowen advocates a re-assessment of Dickens's daring, exhilarating early experimental fiction.



• Robert Mighall on the confines of Castle Freud:
  Robert Mighall provides an alternative 'passport' to Gothic fictional regions.

Romantics

• Lucy Newlyn on Reading, Writing, and Romanticism:
  Lucy Newlyn reflects on how her books frame their investigation of the writing-reading dialectic as stages in a dialogue with Harold Bloom.



• Julia Swindells on Glorious Causes:
  Julia Swindells explores how British theatre history often fails to account fully for the relationship between theatre and politics.



• John Barrell on Imagining the King's Death:
  John Barrell explores the seditious world of 18th century 'bad imagination'.

Renaissance and 17th Century Literature

• Robert Ellrodt on Seven Metaphysical Poets:
  Robert Ellrodt challenges the postmodernist assumption that no definite or constant self can be traced in the works of a writer.



• Yasmin Haskell on Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry:
  Were Jesuits conscious of creating their own 'tradition' in didactic poetry? Yasmin Haskell comments on her study of an eclipsed literary genre.

Shakespeare

• Stanley Wells on Shaping the Oxford Shakespeare:
  Professor Stanley Wells looks ahead to the final volumes in the Oxford Shakespeare series.



• Anthony James West on The Shakespeare First Folio:
  West traces the Folio's sales and prices from one pound in the 17th century to over half a million pounds today.

Modern Languages

• David Midgley on Critical Realism in German Literature:
  David Midgely investigates the diversity of German literary culture during the Weimar period.

Reference & General

• Peter France on the Art of the Translator:
  Peter France considers how great has been the work of those unobtrusive 'post-horses of civilization', the translators.



• Paula R. Backscheider on Reflections on Biography:
  Paula R. Backscheider explores why readers love "a good Death" and looks at the cultural significance of biographies.

Theatre & Poetry Studies

• Robert Welch on the Abbey Theatre:
  Robert Welch recalls how his friendship with Shivaun O’Casey led to the delights and shocks of researching the history of Ireland's most famous theatre.

Early and Medieval Literature

• Elizabeth Archibald on Incest and the Medieval Imagination:
  Elizabeth Archibald explores incest as a remarkably frequent theme in medieval literature.



• Wendy Scase on New Medieval Literatures:
  Wendy Scase on editing volumes in the New Medieval Literatures series.