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December 2024 – George MacDonald’s (1824-1905) 200th Birthday   Recently updated !

December 2024— Growing Younger with George MacDonald (1824-1905) by Amanda B. Vernon     This month marks the 200th birthday of the Scottish writer, theologian and literary scholar George MacDonald (1824-1905). All birthdays bring with them the (welcome or unwelcome) opportunity to reflect on the idea of growing older. In […]

Join the Literary Advent Calendar 2024: Festive Music!

Our department’s yearly advent calendar will return to the Connotations website with the theme “Festive Music”. If you enjoy reading literary texts aloud and would like to be featured in our calendar, you can submit a recording to capucine-marie.blanc@uni-tuebingen.de by November 24th. Select your own excerpt on this topic from your favourite piece or ask […]

July 2024 – A Passage to India at One Hundred: Rereading the Trial Scene

by Francesca Pierini (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh) A Passage to India, E.M. Forster’s best-known novel, portrays the relations between the British colonial elite and the local community in a fictitious Indian town. When a young British woman accuses a local doctor of attempted rape, all latent conflicts precipitate. […]

Alan Rudrum

With great sadness, we have learnt that Alan Rudrum passed away on April 19, 2024. He was not only the doyen of Vaughan studies and a leading expert in seventeenth-century poetry and culture but also a founding member of Connotations and a member of our editorial board. We will miss […]

December 2023 – The Publication of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol 180 Years Ago, on 19 December 1843

by Angelika Zirker   https://www.connotations.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Recording-AZ_CC.mp3   Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he […]