by eleanorh | May 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Connor, 11, is a hopeful entrant to BBC Radio’s short story writers’ competition 500 Words 2020. I heard him interviewed just the other day. Reading a good book, he said, can ‘take you to another place’. That’s why he was entering the competition. Connor wanted to use...
by georgiareeves | May 22, 2020 | History of the Book, MA Programme
Amy Kaufman (MRes History of the Book) Like many IES students I had planned to spend the spring digging (very gently) through London’s rich archives and special collections rather than experiencing its arrival for a second time at my mother-in-law’s house in Muskoka,...
by eleanorh | May 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Our early experience as CULTIVATE MSS PhD students within the Institute of English Studies is unusual in a twofold way: we are part of a wider project, and we face teleworking due to the COVID-19 crisis in the very first months of our research. Here’s a little insight...
by eleanorh | May 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
When lockdown began, many of us imagined reading those tomes that we’d been putting off for decades, such as Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, or all twelve volumes of A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell. But as the days...
by eleanorh | May 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
I expected to do plenty of reading during the lockdown, but I couldn’t have anticipated that much of it would involve A-Level set texts. A friend’s daughter, marooned at home during the first year of her A-Level English course and faced with Frankenstein and Mrs....
