by Talking Humanities | May 7, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Languages & Literature, Publications, Research & Resources
Curator at Senate House Library Dr Karen Attar teases out what makes this novel different, including marriage and morality and clinical depression. One hundred and fifty years ago the final part of Anthony Trollope’s The Vicar of Bullhampton appeared – in accordance...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 28, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Publications, Research & Resources
A new database of historic publications motivates Dr Karen Attar to rethink teaching with Senate House Library’s literary treasures. In 2019 Bloomsbury Digital Resources brought out Bloomsbury Medieval Studies, a database uniting ‘secondary content with visual primary...
by Talking Humanities | Apr 16, 2020 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Senate House Library curator Karen Attar celebrates 250 years of Wordsworth with a look at a rare publication that’s as beautiful in form as in content. Among those who have never knowingly read his poems, ‘The child is father of the man’ and ‘I wandered lonely as a...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 20, 2020 | Features, Libraries & Publications, Research & Resources
Dr Karen Attar, Senate House Library’s curator of rare books and university art, examines Pablo de Santa Maria’s Scrutinium Scripturarum ([Incunabula] 64), a source material in medieval and Renaissance studies and an example of the transition from manuscript to print....
by Talking Humanities | Nov 26, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications
Dr Karen Attar celebrates the life of the great Victorian novelist with a recap of the library’s 1863 edition of Romola, perhaps the least-known and least-read of George Eliot’s novels. Why feature Romola in a celebration of the 200th anniversary of George...
