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"When despotism kept genius in chains": imagining Tasso's madness and imprisonment, 1748-1849 (2011)
Journal Article
Lawrence, J. (2011). "When despotism kept genius in chains": imagining Tasso's madness and imprisonment, 1748-1849. Studies in Romanticism, 50(3), 475-503. https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2011.0013

This essay explores the European-wide fascination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the legendary biography of the celebrated sixteenth-century Italian poet, Torquato Tasso. It focuses on English poetic responses to Tasso’s p... Read More about "When despotism kept genius in chains": imagining Tasso's madness and imprisonment, 1748-1849.

Censorship (2011)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2011). Censorship. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (276 - 294). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566105.013.0016

This article discusses the control and regulation of playhouses during Shakespeare's career; The Book of Sir Thomas More; and Jacobean censorship. Elizabethan censorship in the decades preceding and coinciding with Shakespeare's early career evolved... Read More about Censorship.

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814) (2011)
Book
(2011). A. M. Fitzer (Ed.), Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814). Pickering & Chatto

This book is about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her charitable work. It is a principal source of reference for the work she undertook as an author, philanthropist and pioneer in the promotion and institution of educational opportunities for impoverished ch... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814).

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839) (2011)
Book
Fitzer, A. M., & Walker, G. L. (Eds.). (2011). Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

This book is about Mrs. Hannah More, who had acted as a controversial patron to Ann Yearsley, and had used her own reputation as a poet in support of the abolitionist cause. It is the collaborative effort of Roberts, Bickersteth and Seeley that testi... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839).

"Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle (2011)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2011). "Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 38(2), 26-37. https://doi.org/10.7227/nctf.38.2.5

This article aims to give Alicia Sheridan some share of the limelight so far afforded Richard Brinsley and, more recently, their mother, Frances Sheridan. The article examines for the first time Alicia Sheridan's contribution to the enthusiasm for pr... Read More about "Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle.

"This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author (2011)
Journal Article
Meek, R., & Rickard, J. (2011). "This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author. Shakespeare, 7(3), 269-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2011.589058

Critical and popular interest in Cardenio/Double Falsehood has focused largely on Shakespeare. Through a combination of Anglocentrism and Shakespeare-centrism, Shakespeare's collaborator, John Fletcher, and the Spanish author of their source, Miguel... Read More about "This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author.

"So unreal": The unhomely moment in the poetry of Philip Larkin (2011)
Journal Article
Perry, S. J. (2011). "So unreal": The unhomely moment in the poetry of Philip Larkin. English Studies, 92(4), 432-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2011.574030

Philip Larkin has often been perceived as a poet of the everyday, his work projecting a stable and easily identifiable version of reality. However, while there can be little doubt that Larkin's ability to evoke the sights and sounds of the “weekday w... Read More about "So unreal": The unhomely moment in the poetry of Philip Larkin.