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The Review of English Studies was founded in 1925 to publish literary-historical research in all areas of English literature and the English language from the earliest period to the present …
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Keats and Shelley Virtual Issue
Scholarship on Keats, Shelley and their circles has flourished in recent years, with major new editions and monographs alongside companions, handbooks, and other important collections of essays. In 2021-22, bicentennial celebrations of the extraordinary creative output of both poets (Keats died on 23rd February 1821, Shelley on 8 July 1822) provide an opportunity to bring together, in this Virtual Issue of the Review of English Studies, some of the best scholarship on their writings to have been published in recent volumes of RES.
Past Virtual Issues
Browse previous virtual issues published by The Review of English Studies on the themes of:
- Dickens and the Victorian Novel
- Wordsworth and Romanticism
- English Studies and Europe
- Chaucer
- For more previous Virtual Issues from RES, explore the Virtual Issue Archive.
Editor's Choice
Restoration to Romantic
The Voyage of Richard Castelman (1726): A New Document for Transatlantic Literary Studies by Hazel Wilkinson
Volume 70, Issue 295
Victorian and Modern
National Poets on Tour in June 2016: ‘Shore to Shore’ and Brexit by Anne Varty
Volume 70, Issue 293
On the OUPblog
Resisting Slavery
Read the blog post by Susan Valladares
Susan Valladares shifts the emphasis away from the heroic agency embodied by Obi’s eponymous ‘Three-Fingered Jack’ in order to explore the politics of black resistance activated by the minor, but important, character of ‘Jonkanoo’. Read her original RES article:
Afro-Creole Revelry and Rebellion on the British Stage: Jonkanoo in Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack (1800)
by Susan Valladares
The Review of English Studies (2019)
‘Plate III, Negres au Travail’. CC BY 4.0 via Wellcome Collection.
How medieval English Literature found a European audience
Read the blog post by Aisling Byrne
The story of English as a global language usually begins with expansion into the New World. But, Aisling Byrne argues, there is an earlier, untold story about how royal, religious and commercial connections spread English literature overseas in the Middle Ages instead.
Read her original RES article:
From Hólar to Lisbon: Middle English Literature in Medieval Translation, c.1286–c.1550
by Aisling Byrne
The Review of English Studies (Advance Access)
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Making Shakespeare a classic
Read the blog post by Daniel Blank
Daniel Blank discusses the reception of Shakespeare's works among the students and fellows of early modern Oxford and Cambridge. He examines two university theatrical productions that engage closely with Shakespeare's works, arguing that the process of establishing Shakespeare as a 'classic' in the academic setting actually occurred much earlier than previously thought.
Read his original RES article:
‘Our Fellow Shakespeare’: A Contemporary Classic in the Early Modern University by Daniel Blank
The Review of English Studies
Image credit: William Shakespeare Statue. Public domain via Pixabay.
The RES Essay Prize
Essay Prize 2021
Entries to the RES Essay Prize will reopen from 1 April until 30 June 2021.
2019
The 2019 winner of The Review of English Studies essay prize is Clough, Emerson, and Knowingness by Fergus McGhee.
Past winners
A selection of past winners of RES Essay prize are freely available to read online.
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