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...fiction, children's books and even a re-imagining of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. At university, she came out. Did this, wondered Desert Island Discs, cause a problem for her parents, with their upbringing from a stricter era? It was never an issue for either of my parents. Sometimes people say 'think about writing a memoir' - well, how can I write a memoir? I've got...

...fiction were first imagined: Frankenstein’s monster, and the vampire-as-aristocrat. It’s the story of Romantic poets, Gothic novelists, phantasmagorical nightmares and sexual paranoia, all blended together in the intrigues that play out in a Baroque mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva in the early nineteenth century. The writer of the screenplay, Stephen Volk, has...

...fictional characters, we argue, act as lightning rods for children’s empathy and affection, but simultaneously distract attention and concern from the real animals whose bodies are served up in the meal. Through these kinds of cultural experiences, children are habituated to concurrently hold positive self-concepts of caring for and about other animals (in the form of a...

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand representations of the themes of migration and memory in Sam Selvon’s novel The Lonely Londoners relate this text to the context of Caribbean migrant experience carry out critical analysis of prose fiction discuss the novel in relation to the concept of literatures...Sam Selvon, The Lonely...