Eger Journal of English Studies https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes <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> Eszterházy Károly Catholic University en-US Eger Journal of English Studies 1786-5638 Eger Journal of English Studies https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1478 <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> Csaba Czeglédi Angelika Reichmann Albert Vermes Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 Educational Horizons in the Works of Female Authors between 1770 and 1830 https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1466 <p>&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> Andrea Jakab Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 75 81 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.75 Discontinuous Continuity https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1467 <p>&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> Tamás Tukacs Dávid Szőke Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 83 89 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.83 English Literature from a Hungarian Perspective https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1468 <p>&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> Eszter Láncos Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 91 97 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.91 History of English Literature https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1469 <p>&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> Fanni Antalóczy Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 99 101 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.99 The Red Book of Central European Tolkien Studies https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1470 <p>&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> Norbert Gyuris Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 103 106 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.103 Eating after the Apocalypse https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1475 <p>&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> Silvia Rosivalová Baučeková Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 107 109 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.107 The Digital Study of Literature https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1476 <p>&nbsp; &nbsp;</p> Rebeka Simon Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 111 113 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.111 Mouths https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1457 <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> Tamás Tukacs Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 3 15 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.3 The Production, Circulation, and Reception of Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1458 <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> Ágnes Zsófia Kovács Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 17 38 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.17 Identity Construction through Images of Clothing in Fleur Adcock’s Poetry https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1459 <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> Yuxian Wu Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 39 50 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.39 Spatial and Corporeal Poetics of the Haunted House https://ojs.uni-eszterhazy.hu/index.php/ejes/article/view/1460 <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> Viktória Osoliová Copyright (c) 2025 2025-02-11 2025-02-11 23 51 74 10.33035/EgerJES.2024.23.51