There are two sides to privacy: the bright side and the dark side. It is often politics which brings these to the fore. I was pleased to stumble across an anecdote about Andrew Marvell from the mid-eighteenth century that celebrates (as well we might today) the value of an honest politician. … More An MP Turning Down a Secret Bribe? Bipolar Privacy
Hypocrisy often challenges us because it is flagrantly public. So what of Andrew Marvell’s satire on Tom May, who switched his allegiances to Parliament? … More Public Hypocrites and Private Anger: Tom May’s Death
Today I am presenting ‘Marvell in Manuscript and Print, 1649-1665’ at the English Postgraduate Forum in Leicester. Thoughts here on storytelling and expanding frontiers. … More Marvell in Manuscript and Print
There are times when taking nothing seriously is a perfect remedy, and there are many kinds of humour to be found in English Civil War literature. … More Body Schema
J.W. Saunders’ study ‘The Stigma of Print’ (1951) touched an important nerve on the subject of publication. Despite claims that this stance had became ‘unfashionable’ by the mid-seventeenth century, few demonstrate such a ‘stigma’ more than Andrew Marvell. … More Marvell’s Stigma of Print
A book I recently reviewed on royalism states the argument that ‘Defeat, like familiarity, obviously breeds contempt’. I can’t help wondering how much this applies to me now I’ve left my academic post. … More Farewell Frost, (or Waking the Dead)
November has seen a venture down to London to register with the British Library and a Saturday trip up to Scotland to attend a seminar for EMSIS, the Early Modern Studies in Scotland. … More The EMSIS Seminar, Edinburgh, 2006
This marks a new beginning – into professional studenthood. I’ve become a master’s student by research at the University of Edinburgh. … More Diurnal – the dawn of a researcher
Writing Privacy 