This year marks 80 years since the death of the great Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941). His most famous novel, Ulysses (1922), is one of those books, like Moby Dick…Read More >
English Literature
Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing (CBCP) Research Seminars
CBCP Events held by the School of Languages and Literature. All sessions will be held on Teams. Please email David Brauner (d.brauner@reading.ac.uk) for additional information. Sessions: 29 October 2020 at…Read More >
ODSECS Research Seminars
The Open Digital Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies brings together researchers in eighteenth-century literature and culture from across the globe for conversation, debate, and sociability. It aims to make the best…Read More >
Mastectomies have been performed for over 500 years – yet we still can’t talk about them
In the middle of the 17th century, Mrs Townsend found a lump in her breast. Diagnosed with breast cancer by a local physician, she underwent a mastectomy without anaesthetic –…Read More >
Taking Publishers’ Archives Online: The Modernist Archives Publishing Project
The publishing industry decides what gets published and determines whose voices get heard. The books we read are shaped by the people who produce them, and a publisher’s archive is…Read More >
Happy Days – creating art from archives
It is well-known that the University’s Special Collections are home to the world’s largest archive for the Nobel-Prize winning writer, Samuel Beckett with over 600 items of original material, including…Read More >
Breaking the Class Ceiling in UK Publishing: Online talk with Professor Katy Shaw
Join us for this talk on class in contemporary publishing with Professor Katy Shaw (Northumbria University) A Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing event The under-representation of British working-class writers…Read More >
Five eye-catching graphic novels that define the genre
Even for English professor, David Brauner, who teaches about the graphic novel, compiling an all-time top five list is challenging. It’s not just the way that such a list is…Read More >
Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading
As people remain confined to their homes, options for what we do with our free leisure time has become restricted. Associate Professor Nicola Wilson from the School of Literature and…Read More >
