FOCUS: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies

Announcements

Call for Papers - 2027 Issue (Remembering and Forgetting)

2026-09-21

We invite contributions to the 2027 issue of FOCUS: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies. The 2027 issue of the journal will be devoted to Remembering and Forgetting: Memory, Narrative, Silences and Forms of Mediating the Past, the issue editors are Zsuzsanna Csikai and Mónika Fodor. Titles, bios, and short abstracts should be sent by November 30, 2026, while manuscripts are to be submitted until 30 April, 2027. Read more for more information, or download the PDF version of the call here.

Current Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): Institutional Contexts

Published by
Institute of English Studies
Department of English Literatures and Cultures
University of Pécs

Pécs 2025

Editor-in-chief: Mária Kurdi

HU ISSN 1585-5228 (print)
3057-8485 (online)
FOCUS: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies XV

Issue Editor:
László Sári B.

Editorial Board:
Sanda Berce (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania)
Gabriella Hartvig (University of Pécs, Hungary)
Eamonn Jordan (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Csaba Maczelka (University of Pécs, Hungary)
Margaret McMullan (University of Evansville, USA)
László Sári B. (University of Pécs, Hungary)
Gabriella Vöő (University of Pécs, Hungary)

Reviews editor:
Zsuzsa Csikai (University of Pécs, Hungary)

Language editor:
John Thomas Voelker (University of Pécs, Hungary)

Advisory Board for Issue XV:
Imola Bülgözdi (University of Debrecen, Hungary)
Péter Dolmányos (Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Hungary)
Zoltán Dragon (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Ágnes Györke (Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Hungary)
Júlia Vallasek (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania)

Typesetting by Lázár Vértesi

The publication of this volume has been made possible by the generous financial help
of the University of Pécs, Hungary

Published: 2025-12-31

Introduction

László Sári B.

9-11
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Essays

The Politics of Female Reading in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey

Rebeka Simon

13-24
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Seamus Heaney and the Politics of Tragedy: Navigating Trauma and Moral Dilemmas in The Cure at Troy and The Burial at Thebes

Soltan Jaber

25-41
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Edith Wharton in the Post-War Literary Marketplace: The Case of the Missing Chapter of In Morocco (1920)

Ágnes Zsófia Kovács

43-55
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Prize-winning Networks: Investigating Network Connections behind Booker Prize Winning Texts

Petra Balássy

57-70
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Between Intimacy and Violence: Portrayals of Transgression in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho

Rahma Feki

71-82
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Reviews

Kovács, Ágnes Zsófia. The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writing. New York: Routledge, 2025. 212 pp. ISBN 9781032580265

Gabriella Vöő

85-87
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Paul, Salomé. Marina Carr and Greek Tragedy: Feminist Myths of Monstrosity. New York and London: Routledge, 2024

Klára Witzany Hutková

89-92
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Leeney, Cathy and Deirdre McFeely, eds. The Plays of Maura Laverty: Liffey Lane, Tolka Row, A Tree in the Crescent. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2023. 274 pp. ISBN 978-1-80207-791-9

Mária Kurdi

93-96
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Barnes, Charlotte. Deconstructing True Crime Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 227 pp. ISBN 978-3-031-41044-4

Kata Annamária Nagy

97-98
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