In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...

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Canadian Literature Canadian literature is almost entirely a late-20th century phenomenon. Though the Victorian era (183 ...

Though local suffrage slowly opened to women in many states, suffragists continued their fight for national voting rights through the 19th century. Mocked, jailed, beaten, and force-fed ...

The protagonist for Irish writer James Joyce’s modernist novel ‘Ulysses’ (1922), was allegedly inspired by a Jewish painter and writer from the northeastern Italian city of Trieste. In fact, Joyce ...

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Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together ... We work closely with our Americanist colleagues as well as with faculty in global literature and in other ...