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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
by Ariadna Strempel Pons I like to live with my characters, to get thoroughly acquainted with them; and I am always sorry to part with the companions who have brought me many a pleasant hour of oblivion — oblivion from the carking cares that crowd outside my study door. – […]
by Vera Yakupova Published on the 14th of May 1925, while merely describing a 24 hour period, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is turning 100 years. When we remember the novel in the present, what do 100 years mean, as the characters’ memories and experiences reach us today? The New Yorker […]
by Laurie Atkinson Yesterday, Leslie Stephen, who was down here to lecture, called on me and took me up to see a poor fellow, a bit of a poet who writes for him, and who has been eighteen months in our Infirmary and may be, for all I know, eighteen […]
by Vera Yakupova The history of literature in English is long and varied, having brought forth a nearly inexhaustible supply of memorable events – from the births and deaths of significant writers or the releases of their iconic works to revolutionary theatre performances or censorship lawsuits. This year, we want […]