New issue of our Postgraduate English journal

25 April 2022

Word cloud of keywords used in this issue of Postgraduate English. literature 0th-century Charlotte Dacre gender Irish Jean Rhys Marina Carr Norman Nicholson Shakespeare 9th-century classical reception colonialism contagion Cumbria desire exile Greek landscape moral neo-Victorian place poetry political power race spatial Tempest theatre tragedy

We’re delighted to announce the publication of volume 43 of Postgraduate English, our groundbreaking journal which has been publishing worldwide early-career literature scholars since 2000.

This issue was edited by Hannah Voss and Victoria Penn, and includes professionally peer-reviewed articles on:

Moral Contagion as a Threat to Cultural Hegemony in the Novels of Charlotte Dacre, by Charlotte Chassefiѐre (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier)
Testing boundaries: Millom and the Ironworks in Norman Nicholson’s The Pot Geranium (1954), by Laura Day (Durham University)
Exile and Colonialism in The Tempest: Prospero’s Powers and Identities Revisited, by Yi-chin Huang (Western Michigan University)
Kill Like Medea, but with Love this Time: Marina Carr’s Take on Filicide in By the Bog of Cats, by Dimitris Kentrotis-Zinelis (Leiden University)
A Language of Loneliness: Spatial Confinement and the Revolt of Textual Selves in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, by T. C. Nivedita (Independent Scholar)

As always, this material can be read for free in Postgraduate English, which has been open access since its inception in 2000. A Call for Papers for the next issue will be advertised shortly, although submissions are accepted year-round following these author guidelines.