Edward McLaren is a third year DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford studying Jane Austen and gentry blood myths. He is the author of Bothelford’s Gone, a novel about the grooming gangs in twenty-first-century Britain, the first part of his “YOOKAY” trilogy.
Edward combines a wide range of influences in his literary and academic work, drawing from postmodern and romantic visionaries like Gilles Deleuze and William Blake on the one hand, and the more directly political examples of Oswald Spengler and Henry St. John on the other. His long-term literary-theological project is a synthesis of Anglicanism, Darwinism, and Neo-Paganism aimed at developing a more honourable attitude to the world.
