Recently I’ve been thinking about how hard it is to do transnational comparative research on periodicals, so I’ve started to compile a series of guides to the study of magazines in various countries. Since they’ll all be in one place, it should be easier the follow up lines of enquiry across countries. I have to say…More
Matrimonial Ads in the Victorian Press: Fantasy, Imagination, Story, Life
“Honest, Thick-Skinned Advertisements for Goods”? W.D. a tall, dark, young man, with £200 per annum, derived from an investment in the funds, would like to have a fair-complexioned young wife; he has just returned from Italy, but does not admire the dark beauties of that land of poetry and song. MARIA C., of Wavertree, who…More
Book Review: British Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840
This was published in Reception – https://doi.org/10.5325/reception.8.1.0113 – but they never told me. Hence my posting of it here (with added images) Maureen McCueBritish Romanticism and the Reception of Italian Old Master Art 1793-1840Farnham, UK/ Burlington VT: Ashgate, November 2014.204 pages$109.95ISBN: 978-1-4094-6832-5 How does one study the reception of art work? As we know from…More
From the Greek Anthology
 Concert programme 4 June 1988, Club Voltaire, Catania Yesterday I came across an old cassette tape of a concert I gave at the Club Voltaire in Catania, Sicily on the 4th of June 1988. What a shock to hear this after amost 40 years! The first half comprised a selection of pieces by Scriabin,…More
The Army Surgeon – some comments
“The Army Surgeon” Sydney Dobell Over that breathing[1] waste of friends and foes,[2] The wounded and the dying, hour by hour,- In will a thousand, yet but one in power [3] ,- He [3] labours thro’ the red and groaning day. The fearful moorland where the myriads lay Moved as a moving field of mangled worms.…More
University of Macerata Final Report: Collaborazione, bilocazione, internazionalizzazione
Final report to the Faculty at the University of Macerata 10 December 2014, arguing for the necessity of both internal and international academic collaborationMore
Teaching, pasticceria, and the purposes of education.
What is the purpose of university education? Is teaching independent thinking *necessarily* good? if we think so, what are we doing about it?More
The Vicissitudes of Biography; or, how to welcome an Other
How can we consider biography? Inspired by Derrida’s thinking about hospitality towards the foreigner, the blog post muses on the problems and pleasures of biography as a hosting of the Other, a welcome. More
Ouida A Dog of Flanders/ Nello e Patrasche
Ouida, “A Dog of Flanders” (1872)/ Nello e Patrasche (1880) editions in English and Italian English edition: A Dog of Flanders edited by Andrew King Italian translation (large file – be patient): nello e patrasche trans T Cibeo Treves 1880 “A Dog of Flanders: a Story of Noel” was originally written as a Christmas tale for the…More
Cooking a PhD, 1997 style
I’ve just discovered in an old file a jeu d’esprit I wrote for the British Council Family’s Association (BCFA) Magazine in 1997 while I was a PhD student studying in London and living in Warsaw. While it reads as quaintly old-fashioned now – the universe was very different 20 years ago – I know some colleagues will appreciate…More
Prof Andrew King 