Reading Matters: Middlemarch
Professor Gail Marshall (University of Reading) Reading Matters: Middlemarch The material book I am exceptionally lucky to have on my shelves a first edition of Middlemarch, the very generous…
Two books changed my life.
Dr Rebecca Fisher (English Association) Two books changed my life. As a teenager, I read A. S. Byatt’s The Virgin in the Garden, and something fundamental shifted in the way books…
Really reading
Professor Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University) We live in what’s called an ‘attention economy’: Insta, YouTube, TikTok and all the other sites want our eyes on them. They want our attention.…
Reading is a very complex word
Professor Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway University of London) Reading is a very complex word. In educational discourse, it’s used in three ways which are overlapping but can, irritatingly, work against each…