Raymond Williams

Issue 2.1 Previous Issues

Railways and Fiction

Christopher Daley January 12, 2013 6 Comments Agatha Christie Andrew Martin Anticipations British fiction British popular imagination Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Down in a Tube at Midnight Emile Zola H. G. Wells industrialisation Jim Stringer series Kraftwerk Leo Tolstoy London Underground Penguin series of railway writings rail fare hikes railways Raymond Williams Stop HS2 Campaign The Jam Trans-Europe Express Victorian novelists

Christopher Daley Railways are news. On the one hand, they are the source of consternation as above inflation fare rises couple with the perceived drudgery…

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Issue 1.7 Previous Issues

The Short Story: A Print Culture Reading

Michael J. Collins December 9, 2012 15 Comments A Visit From the Goon Squad Allen Tate American short story annual canonicity Charles Dickens China Mieville consumption digital culture e-readers Edgar Allen Poe F. R. Leavis flash fiction Frank O'Connor generic instability history of the book Jennifer Egan John Crowe Ransom Kindle literary canon literary copyright literary fiction literary genre literary marketplace litfic Louisa May Alcott magazine market pressures mass market periodicals Moby Dick Nathaniel Hawthorne print culture published fiction Raymond Williams seasonal periodical Short story The Man Booker Prize the novel form Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern twitter fiction Washington Irving

Over the last few decades, the short story has been the subject of a fierce medical dispute. Observers have gathered to ask, like Ishmael of the Leviathan in Moby-Dick…

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Issue 1.4 Previous Issues

Human Nature: Pastoral in the Anthropocene

Deborah Lilley September 1, 2012 2 Comments Anthropocene Arcadia Being Dead contemporary literature ecological concerns Edgelands Findings geological epoch Glen Love Glister human action Jim Crace John Barrell John Bull John Burnside Kathleen Jamie Lawrence Buell Leo Marx Martin Ryle Michael Symmons Roberts pastoral Paul Farley Raymond Williams Terry Gifford The Country and the City The Pesthouse zoology

With the proposition that we are now living in the Anthropocene – the geological epoch defined by human activities and their effects – the conditions of the pastoral are placed under unprecedented threat, and at the same time, they can be seen to be given new significance.

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