English Language & Literature Isolation Conversations

An Isolation Conversation article by Ros Ballaster, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies: ‘In 1722, Daniel Defoe describes how news of a terrifying disease took grip in Holland in 1664, reputedly brought to its shores by a Turkish fleet.’

An Isolation Conversation article by Michèle Mendelssohn, Professor of English and American Literature: ‘Once the darling of Victorian society, within weeks he was tried and sent to jail for two years at hard labour.’

An Isolation Conversation article by Lucinda Rumsey, Senior Tutor: ‘There is a 13th century text called Ancrene Wisse, which is a guide for anchoresses, who are like nuns, but live entirely solitary’.

An Isolation Conversation article by Ruth Scobie, Lecturer in English: ‘Like a lot of Romantic lyric poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘Fears in Solitude’ is about a lone, thoughtful speaker-poet in a peaceful “green and silent spot”.’

An Isolation Conversation article by Chris Salamone, Lecturer in English: ‘The Elizabethan satirist, Thomas Nashe (1567-1601), repeatedly turned pestilence into stylistic profit.’