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The English Review

The flagship magazine for A-level English


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Volume 23, 2009/10

The English Review - September 2009 cover

The English Review is written for students.

Each 44-page issue contains specially commissioned articles aimed at updating and expanding students’ knowledge of set texts, themes and key topics on the new AS and A2 specifications.

Regular columns will help students develop understanding and skills. These include:

  • Exam advice
  • Understanding genre
  • Question & answers
  • Literature in context
  • Close reading

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Volume 20

Issue 1: September 2009

Issue 2: November 2009

Issue 3: February 2010

Issue 4: April 2010

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February 2010

The English Review - February 2010 cover

Contents

Capturing the castle The Gothic castle as myth, motif and metaphor
Pete Bunten

Literature and context
The triumph of machinery
Representations of the railway in Victorian literature
Ian Stewart

Marlowe’s ‘mighty line’
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Amanda Naylor

Contemporary fiction
Looking for the real India
The White Tiger, Q&A and
Slumdog Millionaire
Cicely Palser Havely

A foot in each camp R. S. Thomas, Wales and England
Chris Saunders

Exam preparation Heartache, hope and happiness The struggle for identity in modern literature
Nicola Onyett

Passionate encounters Representations of gender in modern romance fiction
Ruth Doyle

‘Language and only language’
Brian Friel’s Translations
Luke McBratney

The secret war of feeling
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Villette
Julia Millhouse

‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ as self-revelation
Jackie Shead

Emily Brontë Religious radical?
Rosie Gillett

Contemporary poets Antony Dunn