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Volume 23, 2009/10
The English Review is written for students.
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Volume 20
Issue 1: September 2009
Issue 2: November 2009
Issue 3: February 2010
Issue 4: April 2010
September 2009

Contents
Wuthering Heights
The problem of Heathcliff
Paul Cheetham
Question and answer
Enduring Love
The great Gatsby mystery
Anne Crow
Exam advice
Hitting the Assessment Objectives at AS and A2
Bernard O’Keeffe
1809, 1812 and 1993: The contexts of Arcadia
Jonny Patrick
In your own words: Plagiarism
James Geldard
Shakespeare and Stoicism
John Davie
Unreliable narrators: Enduring Love and The Great Gatsby
Bernard O’Keeffe
Frankenstein
Is it really about the dangers of science?
Chris Bond
‘The only amends I can make’
Thomas Hardy’s poems of 1912-13
Stephanie Forward
Exam advice
Effective exam preparation
Bernard O’Keeffe
Carry on revenging: Hamlet, futility, farce and fortune
Joe Sutcliffe
Contemporary poets
Adam Foulds
November 2009

Contents
Fossils, apes and supermen
Evolution and the literary text
Barbara Morden
Exam preparation
The spirit of the age
Texts in a shared context
Nicola Onyett
The Handmaid’s Tale in context
Amanda Greenwood
Shakespeare’s mouth-stopping kisses
Alison Kelly
Sex, violence and class in Great Expectations
Lucy Meredith
Surveillance and paranoia in Measure for Measure
Fiona Dunlop
Reading (in) the past
Rosalind Crone
Understanding genre
Satirists on the Shakespearean stage Hannah Lavery
Poetry and paternal love
Rachel Thanassoulis
The lives of princes The role of Giovanni in The White Devil
Peter Malin
The good, the bad and the Larkin
Nick Johnston-Jones
Love, sex, money and morality
The marriage debate in ‘The Merchant’s Tale’
Aisling Murray
Contemporary poets Mark Doty
February 2010

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
April 2010

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