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‘Start not, gentle reader!’: Re-reading Alicia LeFanu’s Helen Monteagle (1818) (2021)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. (2021). ‘Start not, gentle reader!’: Re-reading Alicia LeFanu’s Helen Monteagle (1818). Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, 94-116. https://doi.org/10.18573/romtext.105

This article is the first to focus upon Helen Monteagle (1818), a novel written by Alicia LeFanu and the second of six works of fiction she is known to have published between 1816 and 1826. In part an act of recovery, the article explores Helen Monte... Read More about ‘Start not, gentle reader!’: Re-reading Alicia LeFanu’s Helen Monteagle (1818).

Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing (2021)
Book
(2021). J. Shattock, J. Wilkes, K. Newey, & V. Sanders (Eds.), Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003199861

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume I of four explores the subjects of life-writing, including biography, autobiography, diaries and letters. This volume will be of gre... Read More about Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing.

Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic (2021)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (in press). Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic. In S. Ni Fhlainn, & B. M. Murphy (Eds.), Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion. Edinburgh University Press

This chapter is a survey of the evolution of weird fiction and how it relates to the Gothic in the twentieth century. It argues for an understanding of the mode in terms of its blending of genres and resistance to categorisation, emphasising publicat... Read More about Weird Fiction in the Twentieth-Century Gothic.

The Value of Waste in the Contemporary North American Waste Novel, 1996-2013 (2021)
Thesis
Hendow, L. (2021). The Value of Waste in the Contemporary North American Waste Novel, 1996-2013. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4922498

The waste crisis is one of the most significant environmental challenges facing the Western world. North America is particularly guilty in this: producing around three times the amount of waste that its population warrants (McGrath, 2019). The Value... Read More about The Value of Waste in the Contemporary North American Waste Novel, 1996-2013.

The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames (2021)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K., & Crofts, M. (in press). The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames. In A. Alcala Gonzalez, & C. H. Sederholm (Eds.), Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming (213-226). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367713065

Manuel Aguirre’s The Closed Space: Horror Literature and Western Symbolism (1990) drew critical focus to the importance of enclosed spaces and Gothic literature; caverns, catacombs and labyrinths. For Aguirre ‘the world is defined in horror literatur... Read More about The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and ‘Dungeon Crawler’ Videogames.

Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now (2021)
Journal Article
Hatter, J., Ifill, H., Bloom, A. B., Costantini, M., Lambert, C., Pope, C., & Sanders, V. (2021). Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now. Victorian popular fictions journal, 3(1), 4--32. https://doi.org/10.46911/tfsa1481

Reclaiming lost or forgotten (Victorian) popular women writers and their works is still an important, ongoing aim of literary and gender studies. In this article, we take the Key Popular Women Writers series, published by Edward Everett Root Publishe... Read More about Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now.

Reimagining local governance in the UK: Understanding public discourse on the Preston model (2021)
Book Chapter
Farrelly, M. (2021). Reimagining local governance in the UK: Understanding public discourse on the Preston model. In J. Manley, & P. B. Whyman (Eds.), The Preston model and community wealth building: Creating a socio-economic democracy for the future (79-92). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003053736

The Preston Model of local economic development seeks to serve the material, social and health needs of the people of the city; it has met with widespread praise but critics have also called the model a form of unwelcome ‘protectionism’ that could no... Read More about Reimagining local governance in the UK: Understanding public discourse on the Preston model.

“A most excellent medicine”: Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell (2021)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2021). “A most excellent medicine”: Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell. Seventeenth Century, 36(4), 653-679. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2021.1901240

The poet Andrew Marvell (1621–78) died suffering from vivax malaria, a common disease in the seventeenth century, endemic in estuary regions of eastern England. This article explores Marvell’s death alongside the literature and history of malaria and... Read More about “A most excellent medicine”: Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell.

Victorian Stage Magic, Adventure and the Mutilated Body (2021)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2021). Victorian Stage Magic, Adventure and the Mutilated Body. In C. Bloom (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic (691-710). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40866-4_37

The period of ‘high imperialism’ in the late nineteenth century converges with what was known as the ‘Golden Age’ of stage magic. I examine how imperial adventure narratives of the late century and stage magicians both deploy illusions to showcase We... Read More about Victorian Stage Magic, Adventure and the Mutilated Body.