Demystifying Literature
Heather ColleyAccessible literary content from a University of Oxford PhD student in English Lit
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Restoration & Eighteenth Century English Literature Curriculum (1660–1760)
I sometimes think that we have a bit of a Shakespeare & Victorian bias - within both the academic and generalist literary worlds.
“Flora and Zephyr,” Jacopo Amigoni (1730s)
Can you recall the texts that you read in high school? Your teena...
The First AI Panic Happened in An 1818 Novel
What Frankenstein predicted about technology and Artificial Intelligence
In the summer of 1817, an 18 year old Mary Shelley begins to write what will, the following year, be published as Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
PhDiaries: Literature, Music, and Art from April
1. Reading
April was a great month for reading-for-pleasure. Throughout my graduate studies in English Literature, I have often found it difficult to read simply for the joy of it. Studying literature or the humanities means that all...
Why Modernist Literature Matters Now (More Than Ever)
How the modernists predicted AI, paged empathy, and confronted crisis with beauty
Lately I have been thinking a lot about the modernists, and especially T.S. Eliot - I always think about The Waste Land at this time of year. The opening to...
A Guided History of English Literature
From medieval writings to the postmodernist novel, with a master-list of academic books that I find to be most helpful in broadly understanding English literary history.
I’ve often wished that I would’ve taken a broad History of English Li...
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