What stands out most about the book I'm carrying under my arm, as I meander through the exhibits at the National Maritime ...

Unlike other famous courtesans of Hindi cinema and literature, Umrao Jan’s story has been revisited time and again over the last 125 years, her iconic status reinforced with each re-telling ...

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

The age-old semicolon is dying out as Britons admit to never or rarely using the punctuation mark, a study has found. In 19th century English literature it appeared once in every 205 words, but ...

The writer is a senior lecturer in English literature at Kingston University in the UK Republished from The Conversation Published in Dawn, ICON, May 11th, 2025 ...

Susan Manly, a scholar of 18th-century English and Irish literature at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, suggests that Goody became popular—and enduringly influential—because it ...

Meet Emma Watson’s rumoured boyfriend Kieran Brown, who she met at Oxford University: he studies 19th century literature and is reportedly unfazed by the Little Women actress’ celebrity ...

Above and beyond publishing journal articles, credentialing young people and producing spectacles on the court, the field and the gridiron, the job of a university is to keep the books. Less ...

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose interests and scholarship focus on the literary, cultural, and political histories of modern Britain ...

Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in nineteenth-century American literary ...

English 4240, Nineteenth Century British Literature: Romantic, Spring 2007, MWF 10:00 - 10:50 am, ED 47. Dr. Eric W. Nye Office Hours: MWF 2-3 and by appt., Hoyt Hall 310, 766-3244. Back to ...