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- Jennifer Shepherd on Sketching in Shadow and Sunlight: Writing Multivocal Historical Fiction by Sarah Law
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From PhD Thesis to Monograph: Tips for Editing Your First Book
Heather Hind is a Lecturer in English Literature with research interests in Victorian literature and material culture. She is currently turning her PhD thesis into a monograph. In this post, the second in our series on the PhD and beyond, … Continue reading
Posted in PhD, Research
Tagged academic publishing, British Academy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Hairwork, Heather Hind, Helen Sword, Jenn McClearen, Laura Portwood-Stacer, Leverhulme, Manuscript Works Archive, Margaret Oliphant, Monograph, PhD Thesis, Publish Not Perish, Royal Historical Society, The Book Proposal Book, The Thesis Whisperer, Victorian Literature and Culture, Wilkie Collins
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The Ins and Outs of Archival Research
Part-time postgraduate researcher, Antonia Saunders, kicks off our series on the PhD journey and beyond with her reflections on a recent trip to Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries. As Antonia reveals, her visit not only furthered her research into how 19th-century historians … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged 19th-century ideas of Jewishness, Antonia Saunders, Benjamin Disraeli, Bodleian Libraries, George Eliot, Gordon S. Haight, Magdalen College, Maria Edgeworth, New College, Old Bodleian Library, Open University, St. Stephen’s House, The Spanish Gypsy, Weston Library
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Judging Milton Keynes LitFest’s Poetry Competition
In recent months, several members of our Creative Writing team have been collaborating with our local bookish friends at Milton Keynes Literary Festival. On Saturday 15th April, lecturer Lania Knight interviewed fellow novelist and life writer Kit de Waal about … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborations, Creative Writing, News, Public engagement, Research
Tagged Bridport Prize, Centre for New Writing at University of Manchester, creative writing, Daffodils, ekphrasis, Exit Strategy: Ekphrasis through the lens of the abstract and the formless, Eyewear, Full Sight of Her, Jane Yeh, John Pollard Prize, Kit de Waal, Lania Knight, Milton Keynes Literary Festival, MinK2023, MKLitFest, Night Mail, Norman Nicholson, PhD in creative writing, Siobhan Campbell, Sylvia Plath, W.H. Auden, William Wordsworth, Windscale
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Adam Baldwin on helping George Griffith wing his way into modern critical consciousness
We are proud to announce that this year’ s Peter Nicholls Prize has been awarded by the Science Fiction Foundation to Adam Baldwin. Adam is a fourth-year PhD student here with us at the Open University. He completed his BA … Continue reading
Posted in English Literature, Research
Tagged Adam Baldwin, adventure romance, adventure writing, After London, Arthur Conan Doyle, early science fiction, Edward Bellamy, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, future-war dramas, George Chesney, George Griffith, H. G. Wells, H. Rider Haggard, Helville USA, Jules Verne, Looking Backward, Mary Shelley, Peter Nicholls Prize, Richard Jeffries, Roger Luckhurst, Sally Ledger, science fiction, Science Fiction Foundation, Science Fiction Foundation’s summer 2023 issue (no. 145), scientific romance, Secularizing the Destruction of Gomorrah in George Griffith’s Hellville, Steven McLean, The Angel of the Revolution, The Battle of Dorking, The Coming Race, The Last Man, Twenty-Thousand Leagues under the Sea, William Morris
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‘I shall shift my trumpet and take up my knitting’: Disability, Sex, and Self-Assertion in the Autobiography of Harriet Martineau
Today on the blog, we welcome our colleague Clare Walker Gore, who has recently joined us as a Lecturer in Victorian Literature. Clare offers us a glimpse into her research interests by sharing insights into the multiple ways nineteenth-century writer Harriet … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged and Self-Assertion, Autobiography of Harriet Martineau, Clare Walker Gore, deafness, Disability, Essay on the Principle of Population, Harriet Martineau, Illustrations of Political Economy, John Lockhart, Letter to the Deaf, Margaret Oliphant, Open University English and Creative Writing, Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth Century Novel, Quarterly Review, Sex, Thomas Robert Malthus, Victorian Literature
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