English Literature
Literature’s year zero
One hundred years ago two literary masterpieces changed the literary world forever
Tom’s curious heirs
Lincoln Allison says the torrent of popular school stories that followed Tom Brown’s Schooldays inverted its central message of Christian reform
The Bard of Balliol
Never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account
A most unreliable culture warrior
Not reactionary, just drawn that way
Ghosts at the feast
Christmas ghost stories are meditations on darkness at the darkest point of the year
Been there, read that
Can we leave old books alone?
Hermione Simper
Although Hermione rarely names names or dishes dirt with quite the enthusiasm that her mother did, then she too has her tales to tell
Bad bets by the Booker
In 2021, is the state of the Booker still “not serious stuff”?
Is the English Lit degree killing love for literature?
Alexander Larman and Graham Stewart discuss the direction of English Literature at universities