Some people say that theatre as such is not strictly speaking literature, but again we have at least dramatic literature and plays and dramatists, that’s not to be questioned. So we might include among the topics of this group drama and theatre. And other favourite genres as well —perhaps as a different topic?   Anyways, this is my con…[Read more]

One topic in this group might be sharing new (or old, or significant) online publications by group members. Or perhaps other online publications which are worth sharing, or sharing publications in the form of attachments. I suppose the topic list will eventually develop a shape of its own depending on the activity and preferences of members. …[Read more]

I usually recommend online resources in English literature to my students (and some of them do use them). But there’s a chance that we may need to do extra online support next year too. So which resources do you find especially useful? I’ll begin with one recommendation: audios from the BBC programme ‘In Our Time’, e.g. this one on Marlowe…[Read more]

You’re also welcome to join or follow two groups if you’re interested in literary theory and in narratology, each of them with its attendant blog:

Literary theory group: https://hcommons-staging.org/groups/literary-theory/

Literary theory blog: https://literarytheory.hcommons-staging.org/

Narrative Theory and Narratology group:…[Read more]

CfP: Edited Collection on Early Modern Dramatic Representations of the East

Deadline 15th April 2021

MEMOs is inviting researchers in the fields of early modern literary and cultural studies to submit abstracts for a new edited collection on the Representation of the East in Commercial Theatres and University Drama in the Early Modern Period,…[Read more]

Thanks for creating this English Literature group and for inviting me! And for taking the trouble of administering it. I am joining indeed, and I will advertise it on my website. I do hope to post some contributions as well now and then. Regards, JAGL

The journal English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts, which I direct and is published at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, invites to send article proposals on the topic:
The wonderful, the fantastic, and the preternatural and their verisimilar representation from the Gothic novel to Fin-de-Siècle Literature.
We’ll be happy to co…[Read more]