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Freya Johnston
Seamus Perry
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Christopher Ricks
About the journal
Founded in 1951, by F. W. Bateson, Essays in Criticism soon achieved world-wide circulation, and is today regarded as one of Britain's most distinguished journals of literary criticism …
Find out moreThe F.W. Bateson Memorial Lecture 2019
Professor Dinah Birch CBE (University of Liverpool) delivered the 2019 Bateson Lecture on 'Utopian Topics: Ruskin & Oxford' in the MBI Al Jaber Building, Corpus Christi College, Oxford on Wednesday 13 February.
Beauty in Literature: A Collection of Works
Ideas on beauty and what it means to be beautiful have changed over the years and this evolution has been documented throughout literature. This collection comprises a selection of high quality literary research from Essays in Criticism and our other literature journals exploring the concept of beauty. The articles in the collection investigate a broad range of literary works from the ancient classics through to the twentieth century, and use the latest in English studies to interrogate the nature of beauty.
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