Welcome
'Entrance to a Lane' by Graham Sutherland (1939) Welcome to The Life Illusion . This is a blog I have started primarily to coincide with research for my PhD, as well as being a space in which I can post other bits of writing. As such, topics will vary quite widely, but they will focus mainly on literature, art and culture. My PhD will be in English and the (current) subject of my thesis is British Neo-romanticism and the autobiographical novel. As implied above, however, this will probably be subject to numerous changes, re-iterations and re-orientations. This is often the case with research and my hopes for this blog are that it charts my intellectual journey as the more I read and the more I write, the more sophisticated and substantial my thesis becomes. Ultimately, my goal is to make a solid contribution to the field and establish a new understanding of the unique relationship between British Neo-romanticism and life writing and, perhaps most significan