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Since its first appearance in 1910, Essays and Studies has become a well-established annual volume, edited each year by a distinguished academic. Today it is published for The English Association by D.S. Brewer, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer.

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13 results in Essays and Studies

The Literature and Politics of the Environment
  • Edited by John Parham
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 March 2024
    Print publication:
    22 August 2023
  • Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies.

The Writer in the Academy
  • Creative Interfrictions
  • Edited by Richard Marggraf Turley
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 February 2023
    Print publication:
    20 October 2011
  • From a range of perspectives, the essays in this volume tackle some of the most urgent issues facing the creative writer in today's academic institutions.

Literature and Ageing

The Waste Land after One Hundred Years
  • Edited by Steven Matthews
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    08 October 2022
    Print publication:
    19 July 2022
  • An exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact it had had upon criticism and new poetries across one hundred years.

Textual Cultures

Writing China
  • Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
  • Edited by Peter J. Kitson, Robert Markley
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 June 2021
    Print publication:
    21 July 2016
  • On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer Palace of Yuanming Yuan. Fatigued and separated from his ambassadorial and credentials, Amherst resisted, and left the palace in anger. The emperor, believing he had been insulted, dismissed the embassy without granting it an imperial audience and rejected its "tribute" of gifts. This diplomatic incident caused considerable disquiet at the time.
    Some 200 years later, it is timely in 2016 to consider once again the complex and vexed historical and cultural relations between two of the nineteenth-century world's largest empires. The interdisciplinary essays in this volumeengage with the most recent work on British cultural representations of, and exchanges with, Qing China, extending our existing but still provisional understandings of this area of study in new and exciting directions. They cover such subjects as female foot binding; English and Chinese pastoral poetry; translations; representations of the trade in tea and opium; Tibet; and the political, culturaland environmental contexts of the Amherst embassy itself. Featuring British and Chinese writers such as Edmund Spenser, Wu Cheng'en, Thomas De Quincey, Oscar Wilde, James Hilton, and Zhuanzi, these essays take forward the compelling and highly relevant subject for today of Britain and China's relationship.

    Contributors: Elizabeth Chang, Peter J. Kitson, Eugenia Zurowski Jenkins, ZhangLongxi, Mingjun Lu, Robert Markley, Eun Kyung Min, Q.S. Tong

Writing Europe, 500-1450
  • Texts and Contexts
  • Edited by Aidan Conti, Orietta Da Rold, Philip Shaw
  • With contributions by Annina Seiler , Debora Matos , George Younge , Helen Fulton , Marilena Maniaci , Matilda Watson , Nadia Togni , Peter A. Stokes , Philip A. Shaw , Rolf H. Bremmer , Stewart Brookes and Svetlana Tsonkova
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 June 2021
    Print publication:
    15 October 2015
  • Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred on manuscript studies and textual criticism, which explore these issues from a pan-European perspective. They examine the prolonged and varied processes through which Europe's different parts entered into modern reading, writing and communicative practices, drawing on a range of approaches and perspectives; they consider material culture, multilingualism in texts and books, book history, readers, audience and scribes across the Middle Ages.

    Dr Aidan Conti teaches in the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies, University of Bergen; Dr Orietta Da Rold teaches in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge; Dr Philip Shaw teaches at the School of English, University of Leicester.

    Contributors: Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Stewart Brookes, Aidan Conti, Orietta Da Rold, Helen Fulton, Marilena Maniaci, Debora Matos, Annina Seiler, Peter A. Stokes, Nadia Togni, Svetlana Tsonkova, Matilda Watson, George Younge.

Slow Scholarship
  • Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University
  • Volume 72
  • Edited by Catherine E. Karkov
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 March 2020
    Print publication:
    20 September 2019
  • A powerful claim for the virtues of a more thoughtful and collegiate approach to the academy today.

English: Shared Futures

Literature and Science

War and Literature
  • Edited by Laura Ashe, Ian Patterson
  • With contributions by Joanna Bellis , Catherine A. M. Clarke , Mary A. Favret , Rachel Galvin , James Purdon , Mark Rawlinson , Susanna A. Throop , Katie J. Walter , Carol Watts , Tom F. Wright and Andrew Zurcher
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 October 2014
    Print publication:
    16 October 2014
  • War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been its only subject. In this volume, the contributors reflect on the uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war and writing, from medieval to modern literature. War writing emerges in multiple forms, celebratory and critical, awed and disgusted; the rhetoric of inexpressibility fights its own battle with the urgent necessity of representation, record and recognition. This is shown to be true even to the present day: whether mimetic or metaphorical, literature that concerns itself overtly or covertly with the real pressures of war continues to speak to issues of pressing significance. Particular topics addressed include writings of and about the Crusades and battles during the Hundred Years War; Shakespeare's "Casus Belly"; Auden's "Journal of an Airman"; and War and Peace. Contributors: Joanna Bellis, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Mary A. Favret, Rachel Galvin, James Purdon, Mark Rawlinson, Susanna A. Throop, Katie J. Walter, Carol Watts, Tom F. Wright, Andrew Zurcher.

British Literature and Print Culture
  • Edited by Sandro Jung
  • With contributions by Gerard Carruthers , Nathalie Collé-Bak , Marysa Demoor , Alan Downie , Peter Garside , Brian Maidment and Laura L. Runge
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 October 2013
    Print publication:
    17 October 2013
  • The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko' and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's 'The Seasons'; the "printing for the author" practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, 'The Athenaeum'. Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura L. Runge.

Dickens and Modernity
  • Edited by Juliet John
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    18 October 2012
  • The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's birth is testimony to his status as one of the most globally popular literary authors the world has ever seen. Yet Dickens has also become associated in the public imagination with a particular version of the Victorian past and with respectability. His continued cultural prominence and the "brand recognition" achieved by his image and images suggest that his vision reaches out beyond the Victorian period. Yet what is the relationship between Dickens and the modern world? Do his works offer a consoling version of the past or are they attuned to that state of uncertainty and instability we associate with the nebulous but resonant concept of modernity? This volume positions Dickens as both a literary and a cultural icon with a complex relationship to the cultural landscape in his own period and since. It seeks to demonstrate that oppositions which have pervaded approaches to Dickens - Victorian vs modern, artist vs entertainer, culture vs commerce - are false, by exploring the diversity and multiplicity of Dickens's textual and extra-textual lives. A specially commissioned Afterword by Florian Schweizer, Director of the Dickens 2012 celebrations, offers a fascinating insight into the shaping of this year-long public programme of commemoration of Dickens. Like the volume as a whole, it asks us to consider the nature of our connection with "this quintessentially Victorian writer" and what it is about Dickens that still appeals to people around the world. Professor Juliet John holds the Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors: Jay Clayton, Holly Furneaux, John Drew, Michaela Mahlberg, Juliet John, Michael Hollington, Joss Marsh, Carrie Sickmann, Kim Edwardes Keates, Dominic Rainsford, Florian Schweizer.