Nikki Hessell: 2 books
Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters
Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt and Charles Dickens all worked as parliamentary reporters, but their experiences in the press gallery have not received much scrutiny. Nikki Hessell's study is the first work to consider all four of these canonical writers as gallery reporters,...
Romantic Literature and the Colonised World
Lessons from Indigenous Translations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies. It argues that these translations uncover a latent discourse around colonisation in the original English texts. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, and Robert Burns, and...