The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life.
The cultural history of theatre practices and dramatic forms in Britain, including theories of performance, from the early-modern to the present day; the theatrical avant-gardes of melodrama and modernism
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