Tub on Tuesday

This chapter explores Jonathan Swift's role in the evolution of a form of novel that did not yet exist in his own day. It is a form priding itself on immediacy of reporting, a rhet...

Physicians, readers and scholars have long been fascinated by Shakespeare's medical language and the presence or mentioning of healers, wise women, surgeons and doctors in his work...

Chapter 6 is the first of a trio of chapters which track the expansion of the Lazarists’ original remit of rural missions to a more diverse portfolio of pastoral work from the 1630...