- Literary Academic in Lockdown: Gains, Losses and Risks
- Veganism and Modernism
- When does ‘Women in Love’ take place?
- Theodore Stephanides and ‘Lili Marlene’
- A world tour in shop signs on the Kilburn High Road
- History’s warning against money printing – through stamps
- A Response to Geoffrey Robertson QC on the Subject of the Magnitsky Act
- The Book Launch of ‘The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts’ (2020)
- Imperialism on Trial: 8th September 2020 ‘The Phone Hacking Scandal and the Case of Assange: a Comparison’
- Free the Truth: 11th April 2020
- Imperialism on Trial: Free Julian Assange February 25th 2020
- Tea with ‘Jessie Chambers’
- International Jurists’ Letter in support of Julian Assange, February 2020
- Free the Truth: Academics, Lawyers and Journalists speak out for Julian Assange, London, 3rd February 2020
- Response to Dominic Cummings on the subject of Oxbridge English graduates
- White Angels: the Perversion of Good Impulses to Negative Ends
- Free The Truth: Academics and Journalists speak out for Julian Assange, London, 28th November 2019
- Reflections on the People’s Vote March, October 19th, 2019
- ‘The Character Assassination of Julian Assange’: Imperialism on Trial – Free Julian Assange, June 2019
- DH Lawrence in Paris in 1929
- Fragile Peace in Derry, 2019
- Visiting Tolstoy for his 190th Birthday
- Imperialism on Trial: Free Julian Assange May 2019
- The Hearing of Julian Assange on the Charge of Skipping Bail, 1st May 2019
- Bernard Richards in conversation with Ian McEwan, 1992
- Bernard Richards in conversation with Derek Walcott, 1992
- On going vegan
- Ambiguous Words
- Athens Diary 2018
- Russian Actor Vassily Livanov MBE’s Open Letter to the People of Britain
- Loveless
- ‘And What Did You Do in the War, Vati?’ My German Family’s Second World War
- The Death of Stalin
- Reflections on the Death of an Aunt
- In Memoriam Derek Walcott Part II: an Interview with Poet Jaya Savige
- In Memoriam Derek Walcott Part I: A Reminiscence of Meeting Him in 2001
- A Journey through China and Malaysia
- Lipstick on Your Collar: My Fascination for the Nineteen-Fifties
- Where Anti-Trumpism is Getting it Wrong; or, My Enemy’s Enemy is Not Above Reproach; or, Ends Do Not Justify Means
- Fakespeare makes good, apart from on Leveson: King Charles III
- Three Girls: A Magnificent Response to the Rochdale Child Abuse Ring
- What is Good Sex Writing?
- Fear on Camera: Papa Doc’s Haiti
- Whistlejacket Forever
- Moscow: History of a Symbol
- Dog-Walking With the Dead
- Uncustomisable Orthodoxy
- The Euro-Debate’s Missing Factor: the USA
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Rough Justice
- Corfus of the Mind
- Of Man and Dogs
- Some Things That Are True of My Dad
- Vasilii Perov and other Household Names we’ve never heard of
- Geoff Colman on Naturalistic Acting
- On Being at Home on Easter Morning
- Camille: And The Lost Diaries of Samuel Pepys
- Stop Trident Demonstration
- The Master Builder
- SPECTRE
- Two Ways of Seeing Things
- An Englishly-sunny War and Peace
- Revisiting the Beaumont Road Estate one Decade on: ‘Re:Home’ at The Yard Theatre
- Opportunity Missed at Tottenham Court Road Station; Capitalist Sublime at Centre Point
- Husbands and Sons: or, how D.H. Lawrence gets mashed-up in the National Theatre’s Mine But Emerges Alive and Kicking
- Ten Things that I have Learned about Dog-Owning – and Listicles
- Cambridge Revisited
- Whataboutism in the Gulag
- Lines Written on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye
- Broadside Against Ageism
- The Prosecutor’s ‘Lady Chatterley’
- The Saracen’s Head at Southwell
- On Friendship
- Howard Jacobson in Conversation
- Leveson Now – or at the latest in a year’s time…
- Twelfth Week Sextet
- A View from the Bridge
- Banya No. 1
- The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
- Lady Ottoline Morrell
- D.H. Lawrence and Women
- Helen Bamber
- ‘Twelfth Night’ at New College of the Humanities
- Deconstructing Russophobia
- Victoriana in London 2013-14
- Three Plays at New College of the Humanities 2013-14
- Shunga in the City
- ‘Handbagged’ by Moira Buffini
- An Evening of Greek Culture
- Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum
- The American Plan
- ‘Chimerica’ by Lucy Kirkwood
- Skyfall
- ‘Broad range of GCSE literature choices are essential for a full education’
- ‘The Merry-Go-Round’ and ‘The Night of the Zeppelins’
- ‘The Young Russian’: D.H. Lawrence, London’s Russians, and the First World War
- About
- Abstracts for 14th International D.H. Lawrence Conference ‘London Calling: Lawrence & the Metropolis’
- Academic
- Articles
- ‘Daniel Deronda’ as Tragi-Comedy
- ‘The Mill on the Floss’ in the Nineteen-Seventies
- Commentaries on Shakespeare’s Sonnets 88-93
- efieonf
- Henry James and Ivan Turgenev: Cosmopolitanism and Croquet
- Paint, Pain, and Fiction: Beryl Bainbridge’s ‘Master Georgie’ and Michael Frayn’s ‘Headlong’
- Scapegoating, Double-Plotting, and the Justice of ‘Anna Karenina’
- The Alps in D.H. Lawrence’s Thought and Theology
- The Reception of George Eliot in Europe
- The Russian Soul Englished
- The Unconscious Good Life in ‘Anna Karenina’ and ‘Women in Love’
- War and Peace in Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’
- What is ‘Comparative’ Literature?
- Why does Daniel Deronda’s Mother live in Russia?
- Books
- Lectures
- Reviews
- Articles
- An Orgy of Revenge in a Man’s World
- Anglo-German Relations and D.H. Lawrence’s ‘All of Us’
- Approaching the Victorians
- April 2020: Married Man
- April 2021: Touch and Go
- Are DH Lawrence’s ‘Pansies’ Poetry?
- BBC 1 Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- Blog
- Book chapter on ‘Modernism’ for ‘The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies’
- Broadcasting
- Carnivore: Dorian Gray Meets Trainspotting
- Climbing Down the Alpine Pisgah: Lawrence and the Alps
- Cookie Policy
- D. H. Lawrence and Guns
- D. H. Lawrence: Icon
- D.H. Lawrence and Ivan Karamazov’s Grand Inquisitor’s Christ
- D.H. Lawrence and London
- D.H. Lawrence and London: A special edition of the Journal of D.H. Lawrence Studies (2019)
- D.H. Lawrence and the Avoidance of Darwinian Tragedy
- D.H. Lawrence Group
- D.H. Lawrence, the Grand Inquisitor, and Fascism
- D.H. Lawrence: Sex, Exile and Greatness
- D.H. Lawrencians in Gargnano 2014
- December 2019: Widowing
- December 2020: Plumed Serpent
- Describing the Unobserved: Literature and the World without Humans
- DH Lawrence and Brexit
- DH Lawrence and the Anticipation of a Vegan World
- February 2020
- February 2020
- February 2021: Animals
- Finding ‘God’ in DH Lawrence’s Poetry
- George Eliot as Prophet
- Home
- How is Studying English Transformational?
- Introduction to ‘The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts’
- Introduction to 2019 edn of the Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies:
- Is there a distortion in the perception of Russian literature in the English-speaking cultures?
- January 2020: Belarus
- January 2021: Abruzzo
- July 2021: Musicals
- June 2020: Film
- June 2021: Etruscans
- Lawrence, Darwin and Genre
- Lawrence, Dostoevsky, and the Last Temptation by Christ
- Lawrence’s Bloomsbury: Two Walking Tours
- Lawrence’s Hampstead: A Walking Tour
- Le procès de lady Chatterley: Orgasme et lutte des classes dans un jardin anglais, ARTE
- Literary Bad Sex
- Loving Fictions: Why Do We Fall in Love with Fictional Characters?
- March 2021: XR
- Marriage a la Mode
- May 2020: Illness
- Media
- Myth, History, and the Idea of the Nation in Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul
- News on D. H. Lawrence
- Novels that Shaped Our World, BBC2
- November 2020: Rage
- October 2020: Sardinia
- Old and New Testament Ethics in Two Lloyd Webber Musicals
- On Script Consulting for BBC1’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- Podcasts
- A.D. Miller’s ‘Snowdrops’
- Chapters
- Chapters: Why Writers Have Them, and How To Read Them
- D.H. Lawrence 1: Consciousness
- D.H. Lawrence 2: Humour
- D.H. Lawrence 3: Christianity
- D.H. Lawrence 4: The World at Large
- D.H. Lawrence 5: The Alps
- D.H. Lawrence 6: Birds, Beasts and Children
- D.H. Lawrence 7: Reception History
- George Eliot – A Very Large Brain
- George Eliot 1: Intellect and Consciousness
- George Eliot 2: Genre and Justice
- George Eliot 3: Reception History
- Ian McEwan’s ‘Atonement’
- Julian Barnes’s ‘A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters’
- Multiple Plotting
- Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’
- Reading
- Realism
- Samuel Beckett’s ‘Breath’
- Sebastian Faulks’s ‘A Week in December’
- Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 88’
- Unreliable Narrators
- Unreliable Narrators
- Walcott and Naipaul: History and Myth
- What is ‘Comparative Literature’?
- Radio 4 ‘Front Row’ Interview about DH Lawrence’s ‘The Daughter-in-Law’
- Radio 4 ‘The Art of Intimacy’ interview
- Reader, I married him
- Resisting Tragedy: A Report on the International D.H. Lawrence Conference, Paris, 2018
- Response to Freya Johnston’s Review of ‘Burning Man’
- Review of ‘Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter’
- Review of ‘Behind the Mask: the Life of Vita Sackville-West’ by Matthew Dennison
- Review of ‘Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel’
- Review of ‘Kolyma Stories’, Varlam Shamalov
- Review of ‘Mud and Stars’, a Russian Literary Travel Book by Sara Wheeler
- Review of ‘Subtly Worded’ by Teffi
- Review of ‘The Daughter-in-Law’, Arcola Theatre, London, January 2019
- Review of ‘The Dog’ by Joseph O’Neill
- Review of ‘The Kreutzer Sonata Variations’, trans. and ed. Michael R. Katz
- Review of ‘The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence’ by James Moran
- Review of CUP’s DH Lawrence Poems, and Richard Owen’s Lady Chatterley’s Villa
- Review of Geoff Dyer’s selection of DH Lawrence’s Essays ‘Life with a Capital L’
- Review of Judith Ruderman’s D.H. Lawrence Birthday Lecture September 12th 2020
- Review of Nabokov’s Letters to His Wife
- Review of Rosamund Bartlett’s translation of ‘Anna Karenina’
- Review of the Belknap Press ‘Annotated Wuthering Heights’
- Review of the International D. H. Lawrence Conference at the University of Nanterre April 2019
- Revisiting Tolstoy’s ‘On Shakespeare and on Drama’
- Russia in Twenty-First Century Fiction
- Sample Page
- Screening ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ in 2015
- Sex in Literature
- Sex in Victorian Literature
- Site map
- Summits and Lovers: Retracing the Footsteps of DH Lawrence in the Alps
- Teffi from Odessa to Paris
- The Edinburgh Companion to D.H. Lawrence and the Arts
- The Ethics and Politics of ‘Killing Eve’
- The Ethics of Torture and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
- The Narrator Part 1
- The Narrator Part 2
- The Torture Debate, ’24’, and ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
- The Unintended Consequences of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’
- Tribute to Tolstoy
- Victorians All Around Us
- Why Study English?
- Why to – and how to – read Anna Karenina today
- World War II and Memory
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