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Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge (2018)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2018). Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge. Romanticism, 24(2), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2018.0371

This article focuses upon Alicia LeFanu (fl. 1809–36), author of several poems, six multi-volume novels, a critical biography of her grandmother, Frances Sheridan, and articles for the Court Magazine. Descended from an eminent literary family, and si... Read More about Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge.

From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures (2018)
Book
Clare, J. (Ed.). (2018). From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719089688.001.0001

This volume challenges a traditional period divide of 1660, exploring continuities with the decades of civil war, the Republic and Restoration and shedding new light on religious, political and cultural conditions before and after the restoration of... Read More about From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures.

Coal, correspondence, and nineteenth century poetry : Joseph Skipsey and the problems of social class (2018)
Thesis
Tait, G. J. Coal, correspondence, and nineteenth century poetry : Joseph Skipsey and the problems of social class. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4306375

This thesis explores the life and work of the poet and coal miner Joseph Skipsey (1832-1903) by examining his correspondence with some of the most notable cultural figures of the late-Victorian period. This work is, as far as I am aware, the first mo... Read More about Coal, correspondence, and nineteenth century poetry : Joseph Skipsey and the problems of social class.

Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine (2018)
Thesis
Hamand, M. E. Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4266367

The thesis includes a novel, Virgin and Child, and an exegesis, which explores how novelists creatively engage with issues of religion and morality within the genre of the literary thriller. The novel interweaves the Catholic position on issues of ge... Read More about Virgin and Child : a novel : how the literary thriller can be used to explore morality and the nature of the divine.

Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640– 80 (2018)
Book Chapter
Capern, A. L. (2018). Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640– 80. In J. Clare (Ed.), From republic to restoration: legacies and departures (102-123). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526107510.00012

This chapter analyses early-modern English women writers and the number and patterns of their publication of religious and secular texts between 1640 and 1680. The chapter’s focus is on the impact of the English Civil War and Cromwellian Republic on... Read More about Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640– 80.

“With guiltles blood oft stained”: Spenser’s Ruines of Time and the Saints of St. Albans (2018)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2018). “With guiltles blood oft stained”: Spenser’s Ruines of Time and the Saints of St. Albans. Spenser studies, 31(1), 533-556. https://doi.org/10.1086/694442

Alban is conspicuously absent from Spenser’s Ruines of Time. Although Camden writes that Verulamium was “famous for […] bringing foorth Alban,” Spenser’s Verlame is silent on Alban and again departs from Camden to claim Verulamium had been built on t... Read More about “With guiltles blood oft stained”: Spenser’s Ruines of Time and the Saints of St. Albans.

‘Things pressing to be said’: Harriet Martineau’s mission to inform (2018)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2018). ‘Things pressing to be said’: Harriet Martineau’s mission to inform. In M. D. Hurley, & M. Waithe (Eds.), Thinking through style: Non-fiction prose of the long Nineteenth Century (118-134). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198737827.003.0008

Unlike many of the other authors discussed in this collection, Martineau has rarely been read for pleasure in the artistry of her wordplay. When she mentions her writing it is with a sense, declared in her Autobiography, that ‘Things were pressing to... Read More about ‘Things pressing to be said’: Harriet Martineau’s mission to inform.

The mower, the sower, and the mayor: Thomas Hardy and Hamo Thornycroft, encounters and affinities (2018)
Journal Article
Thomas, J. (2018). The mower, the sower, and the mayor: Thomas Hardy and Hamo Thornycroft, encounters and affinities. Word and Image, 34(1), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2017.1327306

This essay explores the intellectual and creative friendship between Thomas Hardy and Hamo Thornycroft, who met in 1883 when they were engaged upon works that were to define their respective careers. Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge and Thornycroft’... Read More about The mower, the sower, and the mayor: Thomas Hardy and Hamo Thornycroft, encounters and affinities.

“Mortal hostility”: Masculinity and fatherly conflict in the Glass Town and Angrian sagas (2017)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V., & Butcher, E. (2017). “Mortal hostility”: Masculinity and fatherly conflict in the Glass Town and Angrian sagas. In J. E. Pike, & L. Morrison (Eds.), Charlotte Brontë from the Beginnings: New Essays from the Juvenilia to the Major Works (59-71). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571393

Opening paragraph:
The above extract from the second part of Charlotte Brontë’s story “The Enfant,” which first appeared in Blackwood’s Young Men’s Magazine for June 1829, is a rare example in the juvenilia of the raw instinctive emotions of fatherho... Read More about “Mortal hostility”: Masculinity and fatherly conflict in the Glass Town and Angrian sagas.