Pushing and shoving, London’s population reached one million around 1800. And quantity, writes John Plotz, changed the quality of city life. Londoners, he says, were confronted with a new kind of ...

Wilde was convicted in England of “gross indecency” under the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which criminalised same-sex ...

"Pundits" kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research ...

At UB, we take an approach to the study of 20th-century British literature that is fully attentive to the changes to the field brought about by related fields such as postcolonial studies and cultural ...

When the British author Bernardine Evaristo was in her early twenties, she and her drama-school friends would go to London’s theatres and heckle the performances. “It wouldn’t have been anything like ...

It’s the second lecture for British literature and my professor projects a list of 26 authors on the board. These writers were all featured in “The Western Canon,” as defined by literary critic Harold ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Samuel Hynes, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Emeritus, and professor of English, emeritus, died at home in Princeton on Oct. 10. He was 95. Hynes joined the Princeton faculty in 1976 and ...

NEW CONCORD – Jim Dooley is officially the Lovejoy Professor of Biology at Muskingum University. But he also has a passion for British literature and music – and he may have just a bit of philosopher ...

TO REACH Blackwater you take the Yarmouth Road out of Norwich, passing housing estates, a shimmering glass business park and a tangle of roundabouts. On the far side of Postwick, a throwback English ...