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Issue 1: September 2011
Children in chains: Great Expectations
Sue Hemming
Bad romance?: Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga
Nicola Onyett
‘Eternally, entirely Free’: poetry of Emily and Anne Bronte
Anne Crow
The presence of the past: Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith
Karen Lockney
History or her story?: The Other Boleyn Girl and Wolf Hall
Amanda Naylor
Grade booster
Form is meaning
Nicola Onyett
Linda Loman : the one who ‘bore the cross for them all’
Anne Crow
It’s a family affair: Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear
Lydia Onyett
Literature in context
Victorian Christianity in Jude the Obscure
Margaret Thomas
‘Tirra lirra’ by the river: poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ian Stewart
Power and politics in The Winter’s Tale
Pete Bunten
Contemporary poets
Owen Sheers
Issue 2: November 2011
Personal space invasions
Nicola Onyett
Close reading
Wilfred Owen’s ‘Strange Meeting’
Barbara Morden
Close reading
Wilfred Owen’s ‘À Terre’
Clare Jackson
The Less Deceived
Chris Bond
‘A certain ill-defined disgrace’: masculinity and sexuality in On Chesil Beach
Clive Baldwin
Grade booster
Understanding structure
Nicola Onyett
Physician and fool: Rose Tremain’s Restoration
Catherine Sargent
Kill or cure? Medical remedies in literature
Stephanie Forward
Literature in context
The King James Bible and its literary legacy
W. R. Owens
Reading iambic pentameter
Richard Danson Brown
Conrad’s use of setting in Heart of Darkness
Christian Robshaw
Contemporary poets
Valerio Magrelli
Issue 3: February 2012
The importance of Enobarbus
Paul Cheetham
Close reading
Cleopatra’s barge
Sarah Poynting
Reading and rereading
The Moonstone
Nicola Onyett
Being Clarissa
Mrs Dalloway
Julia Courtney
Paula Spencer’s art of narrative
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Jenny Stevens
Study skills
The highs and lows of AS English literature
Charlotte Hobbs and Rebecca Menmuir
Grade booster
Mind your language
Nicola Onyett
The presence of the past
Gillian Clarke and Owen Sheers
Anira Rowanchild
Was Keats a soppy bastard?
Bernard Richards
Keats on women
Whores, Madonnas and the male gaze
Adrian Wallbank
‘Warm effusions of the heart’
The poetry of Patrick Brontë
Anne Crow
Howards End and the condition of England
Barbara Morden
Escape to the country?
Andrew Marvell’s poetry
John West
Contemporary poets
Sasha Dugdale
Issue 4: April 2012
A Clockwork Orange and defamiliarisation
Mike Peters
The fourth man: the role of Fortinbras in Hamlet
Sue Hemming
Literature in context
Romantics, aesthetes and The Great Gatsby
Mike Haldenby
‘Whited sepulchres’: the horror of Conrad’s biblical image
Julia Courtney
Thinking about literature
Roald Dahl and intertextuality
Val Scullion and Marion Treby
Grade booster
Context
Nicola Onyett
Who is the Green Knight?
William Drummond
Atonement as a postmodern novel
Karen Lockney
‘The garden that I love’: Alfred Tennyson
Claire Johnstone
What the butler became: Stevens in The Remains of the Day
Brandon Robshaw
Gothic Faustus? Marlowe and the Gothic genre
Emma Smith
Contemporary poets
Ian Pindar
English Faculty, University of Oxford
Professor John Carey
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Dr Sarah Poynting
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Dr Nicola Onyett
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Dr Richard Danson Brown
Dr Christine Gerrard
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School Consultants
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