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BRANCH has just finished publishing five new essays:<\/p>\n
Nicholas Daly\u2019s piece on Anthony Hope\u2019s bestselling adventure romance set in an imaginary, semi-feudal country, Ruritania, is an excellent companion piece to\u00a0Anna Vaninskaya\u2019s recently published BRANCH essay on spy fiction<\/a>. Jill Ehnenn\u2019s article on female ekphrasis joins a very strong cluster on aestheticism and decadence, with previous essays by\u00a0Rachel Teukolsky<\/a>,\u00a0Ellen Crowell<\/a>,\u00a0Elizabeth Helsinger<\/a>,\u00a0Meaghan Clarke<\/a>,\u00a0Julie Codell<\/a>,\u00a0Nicholas Frankel<\/a>,\u00a0Anna Maria Jones<\/a>, and\u00a0Ayla Lepine<\/a>. Shanyn Fiske\u2019s article joins a growing set of BRANCH essays on the \u201cFar East,\u201d including previous essays by\u00a0Erika Rappaport<\/a>,\u00a0Judith L. Fisher<\/a>, and two recent essays by Wendy S. Williams:\u00a0\u201c\u2018So Very Japanny\u2019: The British Reception of The Mikado in 1885\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201c\u2018Free-and-Easy,\u2019 \u2018Japaneasy\u2019: British Perceptions and the 1885 Japanese Village.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Kathleen Frederickson's article on the Indian famine of 1876-8 joins a strong BRANCH cluster on India, including previous essays by\u00a0Erika Rappaport<\/a>,\u00a0Priti Joshi<\/a>,\u00a0Anne Clendinning<\/a>,\u00a0Judith L. Fisher<\/a>,\u00a0Julie Codell<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Aviva Briefel<\/a>. Finally, Peter H. Hoffenberg\u2019s essay on the South Kensington International Exhibitions joins one of the strongest BRANCH clusters: galleries and exhibitions, with previous essays by\u00a0Elizabeth Berkowitz<\/a>,\u00a0Wendy S. Williams<\/a>,\u00a0Meaghan Clarke<\/a>,\u00a0Julie Codell<\/a>,\u00a0Pamela Fletcher<\/a>,\u00a0Barbara Leckie<\/a>,\u00a0Anne Clendinning<\/a>,\u00a0Anne Helmreich<\/a>,\u00a0Audrey Jaffe<\/a>,\u00a0Aviva Briefel<\/a>, and\u00a0Amy Woodson-Boulton<\/a>.<\/p>\n