by chrisa | Aug 30, 2016 | Collaborations
The reputation of David Foster Wallace, the startlingly original author of Infinite Jest (1996), has undergone a change since his death in 2008. As of 2016, there has been an increased academic interest in his work, with several doctoral theses, monographs and...
by eleanorh | Jul 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
On what would have been Sir Thomas Phillipps’ 229th birthday, Dr Federico Botana examines Italian manuscripts from the Phillipps library that were acquired by Italian collections in the twentieth century. Since the early 1900s, Italian librarians, curators and...
by eleanorh | Jul 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
As part of our exploration of the manuscripts owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Dr Angéline Rais examines the fate of the Swiss manuscripts owned by Phillipps. Although Sir Thomas Phillipps spent a year in Switzerland in 1822–23 and purchased there more than 250...
by eleanorh | Jun 30, 2021 | Uncategorized
In this week-long exploration of Sir Thomas Phillipps’ manuscripts and their fate, Dr Hannah Morcos investigates the attempts to repatriate French manuscripts from the Phillipps collection. A significant proportion of the manuscripts amassed by Sir Thomas...
by eleanorh | Jun 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Continuing our exploration of Sir Thomas Phillipps’ remarkable manuscript collection, Toby Burrows (University of Oxford; University of Western Australia) examines the fate of the collection – @TobyBurrows The vast manuscript collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps...
by eleanorh | Jun 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
At the start of a week examining the remarkable manuscript collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Dr Laura Cleaver of the Cultivate MSS project introduces the man, his collection and his legacy. The church of St Eadburgha, in the Cotswolds village of Broadway, contains...
by eleanorh | May 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Smollett’s legacy George Cruikshank, Illustrations of Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith, in a Series of Forty-One Plates (London: C. Tilt. 1832), [S.L.] IV [Cruikshank, G. – 1832] The prolific Regency and Victorian caricaturist and illustrator George Cruikshank...
