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Be they ghosts or her mind playing tricks? The uncertainty is the draw of the 1898 classic The Turn of the Screw.
BBC One’s The Living and the Dead revels in the Victorians’ obsession with the supernatural and the limits of science.
Like it or not, the literary canon is part of the cultural capital of the West. Universities that choose not to teach it – or refuse to critically engage with it – are actually disempowering students.
For too long the Scottish writer was seen as a populist pedlar of boy’s own adventures. This didn’t happen by accident.
The American writer remains as elusive 100 years after his death as he was at the time.
When Henry James renounced his American citizenship in 1915 in response to his country’s inaction, he spearheaded a movement of writers who refused to sit on the sidelines amid turmoil in Europe.
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of English Literature, Edinburgh Napier University
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Cadbury Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham
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