Latest articles
- Chance, Choice, Evolutionary Canonicity, and the Anthologist’s Dilemma: A Response to William E. Engel1
Barbara M. Benedict
Vol. 34, 122-133.
- Dickens's Reality Show: Chromophobia in American Notes
Francesca Orestano
Vol. 34, 109-121.
- Familiar Studies: Stevenson's Multiple Voices
Richard Dury
Vol. 34, 96-108.
- Intertextual Stevenson: A Brief Introduction
Lena Linne and Burkhard Niederhoff
Vol. 34, 90-95.
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News
- 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 Brown, 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
- June 2025 – 200th Birthday of Annie French Hector (Mrs Alexander) (1825-1902) - 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. – Annie French Hector It’s not every day that we are able to interview our favourite authors, especially when most of them were alive centuries ago. This is why I believe we should thank Helen C. Black for interviewing thirty women authors in 1893 and publishing them in a book called… Continue Reading
- May 2025 – 100th Birthday of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway - 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 described a resurgent interest in the novel during the recent COVID-19 pandemic with the title “Why Anxious Readers Under Quarantine Turn To ‘Mrs. Dalloway’”. As Kindley notes, the novel offers a meditation on the intersection of personal trauma and rigid social structures—an experience that echoed strongly during global lockdowns and… Continue Reading