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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.

Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children (2021)
Thesis
Pojana Maneeyingsakul. Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4223113

This thesis aims to reposition Roald Dahl and his children’s fiction in the evolution of the morality debate in other popular children’s writers. His works for children, which were written during the last three decades of his life, have been frequent... Read More about Repositioning Roald Dahl : morality and fantasy in Dahl’s life and writing for children.

Rereading Ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism (2020)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2020). Rereading Ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism. In A. Walsham, B. Wallace, C. Law, & B. Cummings (Eds.), Memory and the English Reformation (223-237). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108900157.015

With a focus on Edmund Spenser, this chapter explores representations of ruined monasteries within (New) English protestant writing of c.1590-1642. Monastic ruins are visible mnemonics of British-Irish reformation, and Protestants express surprisingl... Read More about Rereading Ruins: Edmund Spenser and Scottish Presbyterianism.

Everybody Needs Some Bodies: Familial Teams and Individual-Communal Tensions in Early-00s British Television Crime Series at the Intersection of Post-Feminism and Post-Television (2020)
Thesis
Khorikian, A. L. (2020). Everybody Needs Some Bodies: Familial Teams and Individual-Communal Tensions in Early-00s British Television Crime Series at the Intersection of Post-Feminism and Post-Television. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4922443

Familial teams were a pronounced and novel trend in 00s British crime series, with nearly 18% employing a structure wherein multi-protagonist teams display nuclear family-like bonding and dynamics, informing patterns within an individual episode, and... Read More about Everybody Needs Some Bodies: Familial Teams and Individual-Communal Tensions in Early-00s British Television Crime Series at the Intersection of Post-Feminism and Post-Television.

Lawrence Set To Music (2020)
Book Chapter
Jones, B. (2020). Lawrence Set To Music. In C. Brown, & S. Reid (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to D.H. Lawrence and the Arts (398-412). Edinburgh University Press

This chapter discusses the appropriation of Lawrence's works by multiple composers, analysing literature and music by employing a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Anything But Summertime: The Performance of Truth in Theatrical Domestic Noir (2020)
Thesis
Knightley, R. (2020). Anything But Summertime: The Performance of Truth in Theatrical Domestic Noir. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4923074

This thesis comprises a novel and an exegesis. Anything But Summertime is a theatrical literary domestic noir novel of London theatre. Set designer Joanna ‘Very’ Cross, ex-Catholic blue-haired goth, is about to light her last cigarette before quittin... Read More about Anything But Summertime: The Performance of Truth in Theatrical Domestic Noir.

“Mediocrity in the sensations”: Charlotte Brontë and the Yorkshire Marriage (2020)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2020). “Mediocrity in the sensations”: Charlotte Brontë and the Yorkshire Marriage. In J. Pizzo, & E. Houghton (Eds.), Charlotte Bronte, Embodiment and the Natural World (75-94). Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34855-7_4

In a letter of 1840 to her friend Ellen Nussey, Charlotte Brontë ironically advises that “mediocrity in the sensations is superlative wisdom,” especially in the context of the “Yorkshire marriage” based on wealth, rather than the mutual affinity she... Read More about “Mediocrity in the sensations”: Charlotte Brontë and the Yorkshire Marriage.