Latest articles
- Rilke, Richter, and Wallace Stevens's "Chaos"
Clay Daniel
Vol. 35, 1-12.
- A Footnote to Lesley Graham “‘Scott’s Voyage in the Lighthouse Yacht’ and Intertextual Transmission”
Richard Dury
Vol. 34, 299-301.
- For a More Comprehensive Approach: A Response to Thomas Kullmann’s “Anthologizing Shakespeare’s Sonnets”
Roland Weidle
Vol. 34, 289-298.
- Approaching Canonicity through a Digital Inventory of Exempla: A Response to William E. Engel
Grant Williams
Vol. 34, 275-288.
For a longer list of recent articles, together with their abstracts, go to Latest Additions.
News
- February 2026 – Daniel Deronda at 150: Love Sacred and Profane - by Francesca Pierini (Asian University for Women) Abstract George Eliot’s last novel, Daniel Deronda, was first published in eight instalments from February to September 1876. The novel’s treatment of emerging Zionism has perhaps protected it from relaxed critical approaches, and the 150th anniversary of its publication falls at a time that makes an equanimous and detached revisiting of its themes even more problematic. Daniel Deronda’s exclusion from untroubled appraisals is understandable, but unfortunate, because apart from the thorniness of some of its core themes – Judaism and a Jewish homeland in Palestine – the narrative still speaks to us through… Continue Reading
- The 2025 Connotations Volume is out - Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate Volume 34 is now available for view and download on our Connotations website. The contributions to the 2025 volume contains wide-ranging scholarly discussions; from early modern to contemporary literature, covering debates on canonicity, intertextuality, Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Stevenson, and much more. To see the full volume, click here. Continue Reading
- July 2025 – 150th Anniversary of Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now - by Eva Marik Have you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope? They precisely suit my taste, – solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of. And these books are just as English as a beef-steak. Have they ever been tried in America? It needs an English residence to… Continue Reading
- Obituary for Neil Browne (1956-2025) - It is with great sadness that we communicate the news that Neil Browne, a long-time contributor to Connotations and to its biennial symposia, died on May 28, 2025. He was Professor of American Literature at Oregon State University for the last 23 years of his life. In his early career he established a lasting bond with Germany when he stayed in Jena as a student and in Bonn as a young lecturer. Although he was a dedicated academic, he was also very grounded in the real world and knew the life of non-academic people. He worked in kitchens and in… Continue Reading