https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/issue/feedEger Journal of English Studies2025-02-12T09:13:20+01:00Angelika Reichmannreichmanna@gmail.comOpen Journal Systems<p>The <em>Eger Journal of English Studies</em> (EgerJES) is an international journal published annually by the Institute of English and American Studies at Eszterházy Károly Catholic University. It publishes original papers and book reviews in any of the conventional fields of English studies, including literary analysis and criticism, linguistic theory, applied linguistics, culture and civilization, language pedagogy, etc.</p>https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1478Eger Journal of English Studies 2025-02-12T09:13:20+01:00Csaba CzeglédiAngelika ReichmannAlbert Vermes<p> </p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1466Educational Horizons in the Works of Female Authors between 1770 and 18302025-02-11T15:12:19+01:00Andrea Jakabjakab.andrea0514@gmail.com<p> </p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1467Discontinuous Continuity2025-02-11T15:15:13+01:00Tamás Tukacstukacs.tamas@nye.huDávid Szőkeszoke.david@nye.hu<p> </p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1468English Literature from a Hungarian Perspective2025-02-11T15:18:17+01:00Eszter Láncoseszterlancose@gmail.com<p> </p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1469History of English Literature2025-02-11T15:21:25+01:00Fanni Antalóczyantaloczy.fanni@uni-eszterhazy.hu<p> </p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1470The Red Book of Central European Tolkien Studies2025-02-11T15:26:14+01:00Norbert Gyurisgyuris.norbert@pte.hu<p> </p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1475Eating after the Apocalypse2025-02-12T09:06:15+01:00Silvia Rosivalová Baučekovásilvia.baucekova@upjs.sk<p> </p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1476The Digital Study of Literature2025-02-12T09:09:43+01:00Rebeka Simonsimon.rebeka0424@gmail.com<p> </p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1457Mouths2025-02-11T13:19:19+01:00Tamás Tukacstukacs.tamas@nye.hu<p>Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) can be read as a fundamental text of (Western) European colonisation and naturally, concomitant with this, of the Protestant middle-class homo economicus. The novel seems to justify several ideological, historical, political, racial and gender assumptions, which are revealed particularly sensitively in the very first encounter between Robinson and Friday. The study examines this scene, with particular attention to the phrase “a very good mouth.” The paper is seeking an answer to the question as to what position the coloniser assigns to the native in the light of the fact that Friday’s qualities that appear at first reading seem feminine, and thus, make Friday appear a feminine subject in this ‘colonial idyll.’</p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1458The Production, Circulation, and Reception of Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings2025-02-11T13:25:19+01:00Ágnes Zsófia Kovácsagnes.zsofia.kovacs@gmail.com<p>This essay explores how a discursive definition of travel writing maps out the study of Wharton’s travel texts. Firstly, the essay provides a historical overview of approaches to travel writing. As part of this, it explains the notion of travel writing as a discursive formation and considers the questions of the production, circulation, and reception related to the study of the discourses of travel. Secondly, the types of American travel writing available at the time of Wharton’s time are surveyed and her travel texts are positioned among them. Thirdly, the actual publishing context and the contemporary reception of Wharton’s work and her travel articles are considered. After these investigations, a set of questions for reading Wharton’s travel writing can be formulated.</p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1459Identity Construction through Images of Clothing in Fleur Adcock’s Poetry2025-02-11T13:29:08+01:00Yuxian Wuwuyuxuan832@gmail.com<p>This study examines how Fleur Adcock, a New Zealand-born British poet, establishes identities through images of clothing in three of her poems. Adcock’s acute observations of clothing reflect the close link between dress and the construction of the self and our place in society. In “The Soho Hospital for Women,” Adcock portrays clothing as a crucial aspect of personal identity, while in “Londoner” clothing reflects the conflict of the divided self. “Witnesses” reconstructs female identity under patriarchy by emphasising the different functions of clothing for men and women in the courtroom.</p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1460Spatial and Corporeal Poetics of the Haunted House2025-02-11T13:35:06+01:00Viktória Osoliováviktoria.osoli@gmail.com<p>The paper seeks to offer a Female Gothic reading of Helen Oyeyemi’s 2009 novel, White is for Witching. The dis/location of female identity and corporeality are examined within the context of Gothic space. Female Gothic corporeality and identity are explored through the themes of eating disorder, maternal hauntings, and the haunted house. The spatial and corporeal poetics of the haunted house are illustrated through the peculiar and symbiotic relationship that the female protagonist shares with the haunted house. Oyeyemi’s novel is interpreted as belonging to a Female Gothic tradition and as a narrative that embraces and reconfigures the classic Gothic trope of the haunted house.</p>2025-02-11T00:00:00+01:00Copyright (c) 2025