Metamorphosis and Hybridity within The Firebird’s Nest by Salman Rushdie  Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed  Into different bodies. - Ovid, The Metamorphoses  ...

 Short analysis: The significance of gender in Milton's quest to 'justify the ways of God to men': Gender as a corrupting influence within Paradise Lost Can gender be a corrupting influence? Is all that is evil in Paradise Lost associated with the feminine? Or is Adam’s masculinity mirrored by Satan? This paper...

Exploring female sexuality and female agency in Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland (1748)  Active female sexuality always represents female agency: that is why it is feared. A discussion Gender “norms” dictated the eighteenth-century female as modest, demure and virtuous. Active female sexuality transgresses these social boundaries, proving women...

 ‘Drad was he never’: A re-reading of Sir Gawain Gawain, hero of Arthurian legend and romance. A nephew and loyal supporter of King Arthur, Gawain appeared in the earliest Arthurian literature as a model of knightly perfection, against whom all other knights were measured.The lines...

In Through the Looking Glass both the reader and Alice are transported to Looking-Glass world: a distorted reality in which language loses meaning, identity is fluid and your moves are numbered in an invisible game of chess. Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass is often...

 ABSTRACT ‘What are my books but one plea against “man’s inhumanity to man” – to woman – and to the lower animals?’ – Thomas Hardy. Linking feminist and trans-human approaches this essay deals with the complex dynamics of power and status in Hardy’s representations...