Solace in Solitude: Re-reading Wide Sargasso Sea during the Pandemic

How T.C. Nivedita’s experience of lockdown mirrored Antoinette Cosway’s confinement in the world of Wide Sargasso Sea. T.C. Nivedita The recent year (or more) spent self-isolating and social distancing witnessed a proliferation of popular articles comparing life in COVID-19 lockdowns to the confinement and tedium of Jane Austen’s heroines. Oddly enough, spending those long days...

The Language of the Space Age 1946-1972 (Seminar, 25th Feb)

Join Alexander Geppert (NYU) at this public seminar as he identifies how the race for space required the development of a new vocabulary.

New Podcast: Space, choreography and royal iconography at the English court

For diplomats coming to the court of Charles I, it was more than a case of knocking at the door and being shown in. In this Late Summer Lectures podcast, Kimberley Foy uses the experience of visiting ambassadors to show how attending the court of Charles I involved a carefully choreographed set of moves, through particular spaces.

New Podcast: Bakhtin and Shakespeare

All the world’s a stage – one of Shakespeare’s more famous sayings, and perhaps now almost a cliché. However, Helen Clifford uses the work of Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin to cast a new light on how Shakespeare’s stage and language are indeed bounded to coordinates in the world. His metaphors often ask us to...

The Classical Underworld as a Memoryscape (Public Lecture, 4th September)

Travel down to the Greek underworld in our third Late Summer Lecture. Madeleine Scherer will guide you through the significance of this place in classical tradition and later literary reimaginations. Free and open to all, from students and schools to members of the public. When: 4th September, 17.30-18.30 Where: Alington House Community Association Reserve your...