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Archive

  • Literary Academic in Lockdown: Gains, Losses and Risks October 27, 2021
  • Veganism and Modernism March 25, 2021
  • When does ‘Women in Love’ take place? March 15, 2021
  • Theodore Stephanides and ‘Lili Marlene’ January 5, 2021
  • A world tour in shop signs on the Kilburn High Road December 28, 2020
  • History’s warning against money printing – through stamps December 28, 2020
  • A Response to Geoffrey Robertson QC on the Subject of the Magnitsky Act December 28, 2020
  • The Book Launch of ‘The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts’ (2020) December 24, 2020
  • Imperialism on Trial: 8th September 2020 ‘The Phone Hacking Scandal and the Case of Assange: a Comparison’ September 9, 2020
  • Free the Truth: 11th April 2020 April 12, 2020
  • Imperialism on Trial: Free Julian Assange February 25th 2020 February 27, 2020
  • Tea with ‘Jessie Chambers’ February 24, 2020
  • International Jurists’ Letter in support of Julian Assange, February 2020 February 22, 2020
  • Free the Truth: Academics, Lawyers and Journalists speak out for Julian Assange, London, 3rd February 2020 February 18, 2020
  • Response to Dominic Cummings on the subject of Oxbridge English graduates January 10, 2020
  • White Angels: the Perversion of Good Impulses to Negative Ends December 5, 2019
  • Free The Truth: Academics and Journalists speak out for Julian Assange, London, 28th November 2019 December 3, 2019
  • Reflections on the People’s Vote March, October 19th, 2019 October 20, 2019
  • ‘The Character Assassination of Julian Assange’: Imperialism on Trial – Free Julian Assange, June 2019 June 16, 2019
  • DH Lawrence in Paris in 1929 May 29, 2019
  • Fragile Peace in Derry, 2019 May 28, 2019
  • Visiting Tolstoy for his 190th Birthday May 28, 2019
  • Imperialism on Trial: Free Julian Assange May 2019 May 2, 2019
  • The Hearing of Julian Assange on the Charge of Skipping Bail, 1st May 2019 May 1, 2019
  • Bernard Richards in conversation with Ian McEwan, 1992 February 26, 2019
  • Bernard Richards in conversation with Derek Walcott, 1992 February 26, 2019
  • On going vegan February 20, 2019
  • Ambiguous Words November 12, 2018
  • Athens Diary 2018 November 11, 2018
  • Russian Actor Vassily Livanov MBE’s Open Letter to the People of Britain July 6, 2018
  • Loveless February 25, 2018
  • ‘And What Did You Do in the War, Vati?’ My German Family’s Second World War January 4, 2018
  • The Death of Stalin December 14, 2017
  • Reflections on the Death of an Aunt November 10, 2017
  • In Memoriam Derek Walcott Part II: an Interview with Poet Jaya Savige October 3, 2017
  • In Memoriam Derek Walcott Part I: A Reminiscence of Meeting Him in 2001 October 3, 2017
  • A Journey through China and Malaysia September 13, 2017
  • Lipstick on Your Collar: My Fascination for the Nineteen-Fifties August 20, 2017
  • Where Anti-Trumpism is Getting it Wrong; or, My Enemy’s Enemy is Not Above Reproach; or, Ends Do Not Justify Means August 18, 2017
  • Fakespeare makes good, apart from on Leveson: King Charles III May 28, 2017
  • Three Girls: A Magnificent Response to the Rochdale Child Abuse Ring May 26, 2017
  • What is Good Sex Writing? February 6, 2017
  • Fear on Camera: Papa Doc’s Haiti January 26, 2017
  • Whistlejacket Forever December 19, 2016
  • Moscow: History of a Symbol December 7, 2016
  • Dog-Walking With the Dead October 16, 2016
  • Uncustomisable Orthodoxy October 13, 2016
  • The Euro-Debate’s Missing Factor: the USA June 1, 2016
  • Les Liaisons Dangereuses May 27, 2016
  • Rough Justice May 16, 2016
  • Corfus of the Mind May 12, 2016
  • Of Man and Dogs May 9, 2016
  • Some Things That Are True of My Dad March 30, 2016
  • Vasilii Perov and other Household Names we’ve never heard of March 28, 2016
  • Geoff Colman on Naturalistic Acting March 27, 2016
  • On Being at Home on Easter Morning March 27, 2016
  • Camille: And The Lost Diaries of Samuel Pepys February 29, 2016
  • Stop Trident Demonstration February 28, 2016
  • The Master Builder February 28, 2016
  • SPECTRE February 28, 2016
  • Two Ways of Seeing Things February 16, 2016
  • An Englishly-sunny War and Peace February 16, 2016
  • Revisiting the Beaumont Road Estate one Decade on: ‘Re:Home’ at The Yard Theatre February 12, 2016
  • Opportunity Missed at Tottenham Court Road Station; Capitalist Sublime at Centre Point February 11, 2016
  • Husbands and Sons: or, how D.H. Lawrence gets mashed-up in the National Theatre’s Mine But Emerges Alive and Kicking February 8, 2016
  • Ten Things that I have Learned about Dog-Owning – and Listicles February 3, 2016
  • Cambridge Revisited October 9, 2015
  • Whataboutism in the Gulag October 2, 2015
  • Lines Written on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye July 16, 2015
  • Broadside Against Ageism June 22, 2015
  • The Prosecutor’s ‘Lady Chatterley’ June 20, 2015
  • The Saracen’s Head at Southwell May 13, 2015
  • On Friendship March 27, 2015
  • Howard Jacobson in Conversation March 12, 2015
  • Leveson Now – or at the latest in a year’s time… March 1, 2015
  • Twelfth Week Sextet March 1, 2015
  • A View from the Bridge February 28, 2015
  • Banya No. 1 February 20, 2015
  • The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies December 10, 2014
  • Lady Ottoline Morrell December 3, 2014
  • D.H. Lawrence and Women September 3, 2014
  • Helen Bamber August 23, 2014
  • ‘Twelfth Night’ at New College of the Humanities June 29, 2014
  • Deconstructing Russophobia June 6, 2014
  • Victoriana in London 2013-14 February 25, 2014
  • Three Plays at New College of the Humanities 2013-14 January 13, 2014
  • Shunga in the City January 9, 2014
  • ‘Handbagged’ by Moira Buffini October 21, 2013
  • An Evening of Greek Culture September 30, 2013
  • Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum August 29, 2013
  • The American Plan August 9, 2013
  • ‘Chimerica’ by Lucy Kirkwood August 8, 2013
  • Skyfall December 10, 2012

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  • Academic
    • Articles
      • Book chapter on ‘Modernism’ for ‘The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies’
      • Myth, History, and the Idea of the Nation in Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul
      • D. H. Lawrence: Icon
      • Introduction to ‘The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts’
      • D.H. Lawrence and the Avoidance of Darwinian Tragedy
      • Introduction to 2019 edn of the Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies:
      • ‘The Young Russian’: D.H. Lawrence, London’s Russians, and the First World War
      • George Eliot as Prophet
      • Resisting Tragedy: A Report on the International D.H. Lawrence Conference, Paris, 2018
      • Lawrence, Dostoevsky, and the Last Temptation by Christ
      • Lawrence’s Hampstead: A Walking Tour
      • Abstracts for 14th International D.H. Lawrence Conference ‘London Calling: Lawrence & the Metropolis’
      • Lawrence’s Bloomsbury: Two Walking Tours
      • ‘The Merry-Go-Round’ and ‘The Night of the Zeppelins’
      • London in D.H. Lawrence’s Words
      • Climbing Down the Alpine Pisgah: Lawrence and the Alps
      • The Alps in D.H. Lawrence’s Thought and Theology
      • Paint, Pain, and Fiction: Beryl Bainbridge’s ‘Master Georgie’ and Michael Frayn’s ‘Headlong’
      • Henry James and Ivan Turgenev: Cosmopolitanism and Croquet
      • What is ‘Comparative’ Literature?
      • The Russian Soul Englished
      • Commentaries on Shakespeare’s Sonnets 88-93
      • ‘The Mill on the Floss’ in the Nineteen-Seventies
      • The Unconscious Good Life in ‘Women in Love’ and ‘Anna Karenina’
      • Scapegoating, Double-Plotting, and the Justice of ‘Anna Karenina’
      • War and Peace in Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’
      • Why does Daniel Deronda’s Mother live in Russia?
      • ‘Daniel Deronda’ as Tragi-Comedy
    • Books
      • The Edinburgh Companion to D.H. Lawrence and the Arts
      • D.H. Lawrence and London: A special edition of the Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies (2019)
      • Fictions of Torture (long-term project)
      • ‘The Reception of George Eliot in Europe’
      • ‘The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare’
    • Lectures and Papers
      • D. H. Lawrence and Guns
      • D.H. Lawrence, the Grand Inquisitor, and Fascism
      • Finding ‘God’ in DH Lawrence’s Poetry
      • DH Lawrence and Brexit
      • DH Lawrence and the Anticipation of a Vegan World
      • Revisiting Tolstoy’s ‘On Shakespeare and on Drama’
      • Lawrence, Darwin and Genre
      • How is Studying English Transformational?
      • The Torture Debate, ’24’, and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
      • Are DH Lawrence’s ‘Pansies’ Poetry?
      • D.H. Lawrence and Ivan Karamazov’s Grand Inquisitor’s Christ
      • Screening ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ in 2015
      • Russia in Twenty-First Century Fiction
      • Anglo-German Relations and D.H. Lawrence’s ‘All of Us’
      • Howard Jacobson and Anti-Semitism
      • Describing the Unobserved: Literature and the World without Humans
    • Reviews
      • Review of Judith Ruderman’s D.H. Lawrence Birthday Lecture September 12th 2020
      • Review of the International D. H. Lawrence Conference at the University of Nanterre April 2019
      • Review of ‘The Daughter-in-Law’, Arcola Theatre, London, January 2019
      • Review of ‘The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence’ by James Moran
      • Review of the Belknap Press ‘Annotated Wuthering Heights’
      • LAWRENCE: Scandalous! Censored! Banned!
      • D.H. Lawrence Homo Religiosus
      • Rosa Newmarch: Russophile and Poet
      • Lawrence’s ‘Women in Love’ on the Small Screen
      • Modernism in our Time: Review of Roger Griffin’s ‘Fascism and Modernism’
  • Podcasts
    • NCH
    • Victorians All Around Us
    • Approaching the Victorians
    • The Narrator Part 2
    • The Narrator Part 1
    • Sex in Victorian Literature
    • Sex in Literature
    • The Ethics of Torture and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
    • Samuel Beckett’s ‘Breath’
    • Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’
    • Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’
    • Julian Barnes’s ‘A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters’
    • Sebastian Faulks’s ‘A Week in December’
    • A.D. Miller’s ‘Snowdrops’
    • Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 88’
    • Reading
    • Chapters
    • Unreliable Narrators
    • OXFORD
    • What is ‘Comparative Literature’?
    • Multiple Plotting
    • Chapters: Why Writers Have Them, and How To Read Them
    • Unreliable Narrators
    • D.H. Lawrence 7: Reception History
    • D.H. Lawrence 6: Birds, Beasts and Children
    • D.H. Lawrence 5: The Alps
    • D.H. Lawrence 4: The World at Large
    • D.H. Lawrence 3: Christianity
    • D.H. Lawrence 2: Humour
    • D.H. Lawrence 1: Consciousness
    • George Eliot Introduction – A Very Large Brain
    • George Eliot 3: Reception History
    • George Eliot 2: Genre and Justice
    • George Eliot 1: Intellect and Consciousness
    • Realism
    • Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth
  • Blog
  • Media
    • Response to Freya Johnston’s Review of ‘Burning Man’
    • D.H. Lawrence: Sex, Exile and Greatness
    • The Ethics and Politics of ‘Killing Eve’
    • Novels that Shaped Our World, BBC2
    • Le procès de lady Chatterley: Orgasme et lutte des classes dans un jardin anglais, ARTE
    • Old and New Testament Ethics in Two Lloyd Webber Musicals
    • Review of ‘Mud and Stars’, a Russian Literary Travel Book by Sara Wheeler
    • Literary Bad Sex
    • Review of Geoff Dyer’s selection of DH Lawrence’s Essays ‘Life with a Capital L’
    • Review of ‘Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter’
    • Radio 4 ‘The Art of Intimacy’ interview
    • Radio 4 ‘Front Row’ Interview about DH Lawrence’s ‘The Daughter-in-Law’
    • Review of ‘Kolyma Stories’, Varlam Shamalov
    • Tribute to Tolstoy
    • World War II and Memory
    • Loving Fictions: Why Do We Fall in Love with Fictional Characters?
    • Carnivore: Dorian Gray Meets Trainspotting
    • Review of ‘Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel’
    • Anglo-Greek Arcadia and Me
    • Is there a distortion in the perception of Russian literature in the English-speaking cultures?
    • Five Books by D.H. Lawrence
    • Teffi from Odessa to Paris
    • DH Lawrence and the Anticipation of a Vegan World
    • An Orgy of Revenge in a Man’s World
    • Marriage a la Mode
    • Reader, I married him
    • The Unintended Consequences of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’
    • On Script Consulting for BBC1’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
    • Review of Nabokov’s Letters to His Wife
    • D.H. Lawrencians in Gargnano 2014
    • Why to – and how to – read Anna Karenina today
    • Review of ‘Behind the Mask: the Life of Vita Sackville-West’ by Matthew Dennison
    • Review of ‘Subtly Worded’ by Teffi
    • Review of ‘The Kreutzer Sonata Variations’, trans. and ed. Michael R. Katz
    • Review of ‘The Dog’ by Joseph O’Neill
    • Review of Rosamund Bartlett’s translation of ‘Anna Karenina’
    • Review of CUP’s DH Lawrence Poems, and Richard Owen’s Lady Chatterley’s Villa
    • ‘Broad range of GCSE literature choices are essential for a full education’
    • Mountains of the Mind: How Russian Writers Saw the Caucasus
    • Summits and Lovers: Retracing the Footsteps of DH Lawrence in the Alps
    • BBC 1 Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 2015
    • Journey Without Shame
  • Site map
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    • January 2022: Insects
    • Programme 2022-23

Welcome to this site

I am Catherine Brown, an English literature academic who also blogs, Tweets, and writes for the media.

My literary interests centre on novels and plays, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and England and Russia.

My Tweets tend to be literary or political. My blog posts are reviews of books, films, plays, and exhibitions, or reflections on politics or religion.

Half-German and half-English, my instincts are cosmopolitan and pacific.

Enjoy visiting this site, and feel free to contact me on the email address below.

catherine@catherinebrown.org

Forthcoming Events

Contributing lecturer in forthcoming MA in English Culture, Art and Literature (for school and university teachers of English), Perm State University, Urals

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  • Literary Academic in Lockdown: Gains, Losses and Risks

    This post – first written as an invited article for a series of such reflections – considers the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic, and the measures taken to contain it, on the experiences of teaching and learning at my home institution of New College of the Humanities at Northeastern (London) between March 2020 and the time of writing in May 2021. It considers a number of gains and losses to academics and students, and concludes that the latter have felt the gains less and the losses more.

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