Member Profile
Name:
Mr Wanne Mendonck
Institution:
University of Cambridge
Academic status:
Student
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
Cultural Studies
History
History
Other societies:
Research interests:
ethical socialism and the 'New Life', 'Back to the Land' and 'Back to Nature' movements, cultural authority and authorial persona, literature and politics (especially 1870-1914 but also earlier), performativity and literary activism, literature and the environment . Figures of especial interest include Olive Schreiner, Edward Carpenter, Henry Salt, John Ruskin, Louisa Bevington. Also interested in Dutch socialist poets of the 1880s.