Image: Professor Kate McLoughlin signs copies of her new book at the Oxford Literary Festival
Harris Manchester College’s English Tutor and Official Fellow, Professor Kate McLoughlin, has released a major new work that explores how silence has been portrayed in literature over the past 12 centuries.
Silence: A Literary History, which is published today (26 March) by Oxford University Press, is the first literary history of how authors create silences through words. In the book Professor McLoughlin, who joined Harris Manchester in 2014 from Birkbeck College after starting her career as a government policy lawyer, looks at silence in the work of writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Coleridge, Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf.
After an appearance at a recent event at the Oxford Literary Festival, she will also be discussing her new book at Hatchards in London on 29 April.
Alongside this new book, Professor McLoughlin has also edited an anthology of poems about and evoking silence: Silence Please will be released by Bodleian Publishing in October.
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