Volume 4: Absence

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Volume 4 explores the theme of ABSENCE, engaging with representations of exclusion, inadequacy and omission in literature, biography and film.

Contents:

Introduction, Dr Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh

Dr Declan Gilmore-Kavanagh is a lecturer in eighteenth-century literature and Director of the Centre for Gender, Sexuality, and Writing at the University of Kent. He is the author of Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain (2017).

Abduction and Exile: The Twin Absences of Sir Orfeo, Angana Moitra

Angana Moitra is a second year doctoral student on the Erasmus Mundus TEEME (Text and Event in Early Modern Europe) PhD programme based jointly at the University of Kent Canterbury and Freie Universität Berlin. Her research project looks at the development of the Faerie King figure from its roots in the pagan mythology of classical Greece and Rome to its fusion with Celtic folklore in the Middle Ages and its subsequent appearance in early modern English poetry and drama. She is particularly interested in examining the continuities between medieval and early modern European literature.

Unmarriageable Women: Renegotiating the Feminine in Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White and Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White, Emmie Shand

Emmie Shand received the Woolf Scholarship from the University of Kent to study an MA in English and American Literature, with a focus on the long nineteenth century. Her research interests include mid- to late-Victorian fiction, aestheticism and decadence, women’s writing, psychoanalytic theory, and the supernatural. Her most recent project examines depictions of insomnia in fin-de-siècle fictions, focusing on Bram Stoker, Marie Corelli and Vernon Lee.

Sentience and sentimentality: the problem of being without body in late twentieth-century science fiction, Claire Margerison

Claire Margerison is an MA student at the University of Kent studying The Contemporary. Her main research interests are late twentieth and early twenty-first century science and speculative fiction, with a growing focus on the Posthuman body. She is currently researching and writing her dissertation on Posthuman bodies, as well as blogging about her research on practicallyposthuman.blogspot.com.

It is a Sin to Start a Family: Motherhood and Radicalism in Revolutionary Russia, Angelina Lesniewski

Angelina Lesniewski is a second-year creative writing PhD student at the University of Kent, currently researching women of the Russian revolutionary movement. She graduated from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2011 with a BA in creative writing and history, and from Newcastle University in 2013 with an MA in English literature 1500-1900. She is interested in the fairy tale narrative, political fiction, and rise of the unlikeable female character.

Editorial team: Ananda Paver, Charlotte Wadoux and Jamie Jackson