Dr Sally Holloway and Jane Mackelworth report on the third meeting of their community book group, exploring love and its history through literature… The third meeting of our book group focused on one of the lesser-known Gothic writers of the early nineteenth century, Charlotte … Continue reading
Louis C. Charland is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Psychiatry, the School of Health Studies, as well as member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. Professor … Continue reading
Is weeping more Christ-like than laughing? Dr Lucy Allen is a medievalist working on the literature and culture of late-medieval England, and as a teaching associate of the English Faculty at the University of Cambridge. In this post, re-published with kind permission from … Continue reading
Dr Una McIlvenna is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Kent. From 2011-2014 she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, based at the University of … Continue reading
I’m interested in the idea of religion and the arts as forms of collective improvisation – play-areas where people can let go of their normal ego-construction and social situation, and play at other selves and other worlds. This is, in … Continue reading