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Review of ‘Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century’ by Theophilus Savvas
Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century, by Theophilus Savvas,...
The Real ‘Young Russian’: in Conversation with the Daughter of Boris de Chroustchoff
This article was published in Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies Volume 7, No. 1, December 2024, pp. 287-98. It...
The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, Sydenham, and St Petersburg
The following article is the pre-edited version of a chapter in Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration edited by...
Childhood Viewed from Middle Age: A Comparison of Retrospection in Sebastian Faulks’s Engleby and Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
This paper was delivered at the 30th international scientific conference, ‘The Historical Past and the Present in...
D.H. Lawrence, the Grand Inquisitor, and Fascism
The following paper was delivered at the (online) 34th annual international D. H. Lawrence Conference 'Lawrence and...
Book chapter on ‘Modernism’ for ‘The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies’
The following is a pre-edited version of my chapter on 'Modernism' for The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan...
D. H. Lawrence and Guns
The following short paper was delivered at the international virtual symposium 'D. H. Lawrence: Distance and...
Myth, History, and the Idea of the Nation in Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul
The following article has been published in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism: Vol. 20, No. 3, 2020...
D. H. Lawrence and the Sense of Scale
The following paper was delivered to the DH Lawrence Society in Eastwood on 14th October 2020. ...
Introduction to ‘The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts’
The following is the pre-edited version of the Introduction to The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and...
George Eliot as Prophet
The following article (which appears below in its pre-edited form) was written as a chapter for...
D. H. Lawrence: Icon
The following is the pre-edited version of my chapter in The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the...
Introduction to 2019 edn of the Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies:
I co-edited Volume 5, Number 2 (December 2019) of the Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies with the...
The Ethics of Torture and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
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Sex in Literature
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Abstracts for 14th International D.H. Lawrence Conference ‘London Calling: Lawrence & the Metropolis’
New College of the Humanities, London, U.K., 3rd– 8thJuly 2017 This conference, for which I was Executive...
D.H. Lawrence and the Avoidance of Darwinian Tragedy
The following is the pre-edited version of an article which has been published in Etudes...
Finding ‘God’ in DH Lawrence’s Poetry
The following talk was given in Eastwood, England, on Saturday 15th June 2019, at the third annual 'DH Lawrence...
Revisiting Tolstoy’s ‘On Shakespeare and on Drama’
This paper was given at an international conference on Lev Tolstoy hosted by Tula University on the occasion of...
The Torture Debate, ’24’, and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Versions of the following lecture were given annually as a lecture at New College of Humanities, on the Applied Ethics...
Describing the Unobserved: Literature and the World without Humans
This is the text of a talk that was given in February 2013 to the Ottoline Society – the academic discussion...
DH Lawrence and Brexit
The following talk was given at the British Council in Paris on Wednesday 22nd May 2019, on the occasion of the...
‘The Young Russian’: D.H. Lawrence, London’s Russians, and the First World War
The following is the pre-edited text of an article in The Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies Volume 5, Number 2...
Lawrence, Dostoevsky, and the Last Temptation by Christ
The following article appeared in the December 2018 edition of Journal of DH Lawrence Studies, [Vol. 5, Number 1...
The Edinburgh Companion to D.H. Lawrence and the Arts
The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts was published in October 2020. It is part of the...
How is Studying English Transformational?
On 13.2.2018 a number of New College of the Humanities academics participated in a conference on the...
Are DH Lawrence’s ‘Pansies’ Poetry?
The following paper was delivered at a public colloquium on DH Lawrence's Poetry held at Eastwood,...
Screening ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ in 2015
The following was given as a paper at the 2015 D.H. Lawrence Conference at the University of Nanterre, Paris....
Lawrence, Darwin and Genre
The following was given as a paper at the 2018 D.H. Lawrence Conference at the University of Nanterre, Paris,...
D.H. Lawrence and London: A special edition of the Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies (2019)
I was guest editor, with permanent editor of JDHLS Sue Reid, of articles developed from selected papers given...
D.H. Lawrence and Ivan Karamazov’s Grand Inquisitor’s Christ
This is the text of a lecture that I gave to the D.H. Lawrence Society at Moorgreen near Eastwood, UK, on 11th...
Victorians All Around Us
Watch podcast If you live in a British town or city, the Victorians will be all around you. To become aware of them...
Approaching the Victorians
Watch podcast We should be careful of generalising about 'the Victorians'. 1837-1901 was a huge period of vast...
The Narrator Part 2
Watch podcast In the second half of this short introduction to Narrators I consider some of the complexities that can...
The Narrator Part 1
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Sex in Victorian Literature
Watch podcast The Victorians were not only caricatured as prudes by the modernists who followed them, but were known...
Russia in Anglophone Twenty-First Century Fiction
This lecture was given at Rewley House, the Department of Continuing Education at the University of Oxford, on...
Anglo-German Relations and D.H. Lawrence’s ‘All of Us’
D.H. LAWRENCE BIRTHDAY LECTURE 2014 Eastwood, 11th September, 2014 Dr. Catherine Brown I need to preface this...
Climbing Down the Alpine Pisgah: Lawrence and the Alps
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Reading
Watch Podcast When we 'read' a book, a lecture, a situation, or a face, are we doing the same thing? How much do these...
Chapters
Watch Podcast Chapters are deep in the structure of most prose works, doing much of the supporting and some of the...
Unreliable Narrators
Watch Podcast Narrators are almost all we have to go on – so how can we know when they are being unreliable? This...
Sebastian Faulks’s ‘A Week in December’
Watch Podcast A Week in December takes the pulse of London in 2007. It describes a web of characters connected by...
Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 88’
Watch Podcast Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 88' is the first of a mini-sequence in which the poet anticipates his friend's...
A.D. Miller’s ‘Snowdrops’
Watch Podcast Snowdrops is a thriller set in Moscow in the early 2000s. The protagonist – an English lawyer - is...
Julian Barnes’s ‘A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters’
Watch Podcast Barnes's title is provocative; it announces that this is not in fact a history, but a novel. The novel...
Samuel Beckett’s ‘Breath’
Watch Podcast Beckett's thirty-five second play was sent on the back of a postcard to New York in 1969, where it was...
Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’
Watch Podcast Atonement is structured around a series of oppositions: war and peace, guilt and innocence, literature...
Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’
Watch Podcast Regeneration follows the efforts of a First World War psychiatric doctor to uncover the triggers of his...
Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth
Listen to Podcast This lecture compares West Indian writers Derek Walcott and Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul on their...
Realism
Listen to Podcast This lecture tackles head-on the issue of what 'realism' is - or rather, how the term has been used...
George Eliot 1: Intellect and Consciousness
Listen to Podcast This lecture notes the power and range of Eliot's intellect, and her changing attitudes to the...
George Eliot 2: Genre and Justice
Listen to Podcast This lecture considers how narrative justice, and the genres of comedy and tragedy, relate to each...
George Eliot 3: Reception History
Listen to Podcast This lecture traces the reception of George Eliot from her own time to the present. It traces the...
George Eliot – A Very Large Brain
Watch Podcast This mini lecture explains why, to George Eliot, being truly intelligent entailed being moral, and vice...
D.H. Lawrence 1: Consciousness
Watch Podcast This lecture introduces one of the most important and vexed issues in D.H. Lawrence's thought and...
D.H. Lawrence 2: Humour
Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence's detractors and fans alike have long treated him as an entirely serious - or would-be...
D.H. Lawrence 3: Christianity
Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence was brought up in Congregationalism, and although he left a belief in the exclusive truth...
D.H. Lawrence 4: The World at Large
Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence spent most of his life, after his elopement with Frieda Weekley, restlessly travelling the...
D.H. Lawrence 5: The Alps
Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence first saw the Alps when he was eloping with his Professor's wife, Frieda Weekley. They...
D.H. Lawrence 6: Birds, Beasts and Children
Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence described flowers and children better than any other writer I can think of. This lecture,...
D.H. Lawrence 7: Reception History
Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence's reputation was much contested during his lifetime, and has fluctuated dramatically ever...
Unreliable Narrators
Watch Podcast This lecture considers one of the trickiest of literary devices to interpret and describe: the...
Chapters: Why Writers Have Them, and How To Read Them
Watch Podcast Why are nearly all long prose works divided into chapters? This lecture considers the uses of chapters...
Multiple Plotting
Watch Podcast What does it mean for a novel to be multi-plotted? Does not a novel has as many plots as characters? And...
‘Snowdrops’ and the English Expatriate in Russia
This informal paper concerning AD Miller's 2011 Booker-shortlisted novel set in Moscow in 2003 discusses the position...
‘The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare’
The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare (London: Legenda, 2011) Comparison underlies all...
‘Daniel Deronda’ as Tragi-Comedy
This article was published in Essays in Criticism 59 (2009), 302-323, and is presented here in a pre-edited version....
Why does Daniel Deronda’s Mother live in Russia?
This article was published in The George Eliot/George Henry Lewes Journal, 58-59 (September 2010), 26-42, and is...
War and Peace in Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’
This article was published in Footpath (a journal concerning English literature published in English and Russian in...
Scapegoating, Double-Plotting, and the Justice of ‘Anna Karenina’
This article was published in Modern Language Review, Vol .106: 1 Jan 2011, 179-194, and is presented here in a...
The Unconscious Good Life in ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘Women in Love’
This article was published in Comparative Literature, Vol. 63:1, Winter 2011, 25-46, and is presented here in...
‘The Mill on the Floss’ in the Nineteen-Seventies
This article was published in The George Eliot Review, No. 42, 2011, 70-76, and is reproduced here in pre-edited form....
Commentaries on Shakespeare’s Sonnets 88-93
These articles are in pre-edited format, and are uploaded with the kind permission of the editors at Continuum. They...
The Russian Soul Englished
This version is pre-publication, and is uploaded with the kind permission of the editors at JML. It has been published...
What is ‘Comparative’ Literature?
This version is pre-editing; for the final version please see Comparative Critical Studies, Volume 10, No. 1, 2013,...
Henry James and Ivan Turgenev: Cosmopolitanism and Croquet
This article was published in Literary Imagination, Feb 22, 2013; doi: 10.1093/litimag/imt014 Cosmopolitanism and...
Paint, Pain, and Fiction: Beryl Bainbridge’s ‘Master Georgie’ and Michael Frayn’s ‘Headlong’
Paint, Pain, and Fiction This short paper compares how Beryl Bainbridge and Michael Frayn treat the relationship...
What is ‘Comparative Literature’?
Watch Podcast What is really meant by the phrase 'comparative literature'? How does it relate to comparative...
Howard Jacobson and Anti-Semitism
This lecture concentrates on Kalooki Nights, The Finkler Question, and Zoo Time by likening each to a Jewish Museum,...
The Alps in D.H. Lawrence’s Thought and Theology
This article appeared in the Journal of the D.H. Lawrence Society, Vol 3, No. 2, 2013, 57-84: this is a pre-edited...
‘The Reception of George Eliot in Europe’
The Reception of George Eliot in Europe (London and New York: Bloomsbury 2016) traces the history of reception of...