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Letters from Byron to his best friend Elizabeth reveal the intense emotions of one of his first queer relationships.
She has largely been airbrushed from history, but a new novel seeks to make Claire Clairmont visible by imagining her life after Byron.
Before Swifties or the Beyhive, there were Byromaniacs – fans of the poet Lord Byron.
‘Dark Souls’ draws on the literary theme of the ‘last man’ that emerged from the work of French author Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville and those inspired by him.
What would happen if plague destroyed all of humanity? Mary Shelley’s 1826 book suggests Earth would be better off.
Written in the same house party as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Polidori’s creature was based on the “mad, bad and dangerous to know” Lord Byron.
The story of how Mary Shelley dreamed up Frankenstein is famous. Less well-known, however, is the reading material that inspired her to write.
New research is uncovering medieval legends about the undead in Britain.
The singer had Romantic notions in common with the poet – as well as with William Blake, Mary Shelley, and John Keats.
This extraordinary individual defied the constraints of her time and gave a remarkable and farseeing account of computation.
When word reached the Scottish writer of Napoleon’s famous defeat, he promptly travelled to the continent to bear witness to the carnage first-hand
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Associate Professor of Research, University of Hertfordshire
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Professor of English and Scottish Literature, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford
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Head of Italian Studies, University of Warwick
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Lecturer in Media and Communication, Anglia Ruskin University
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Postdoctoral research fellow in English, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate of English, Dalhousie University
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Professor of Romantic Literature, University of Sheffield
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AHRC Funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Auckland University of Technology
