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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.

Depravity, abuse and homoerotic desire in Billy Budd and the 'Prussian officer' (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, B. (in press). Depravity, abuse and homoerotic desire in Billy Budd and the 'Prussian officer'. Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 4(2), 47-72

In their resonant and evocative stories – Billy Budd, Sailor and ‘The Prussian Officer’ – Herman Melville and D. H. Lawrence adopt military settings for a personal drama. In both tales, two men come into close and dangerous proximity, resulting ultim... Read More about Depravity, abuse and homoerotic desire in Billy Budd and the 'Prussian officer'.

Tasso's art and afterlives: the 'Gerusalemme liberata' in England (2017)
Book
Lawrence, J. (2017). Tasso's art and afterlives: the 'Gerusalemme liberata' in England. Manchester University Press

This interdisciplinary book examines the literary, artistic and biographical afterlives in England of the great Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death in 1595 to the end of the nineteenth century. Focusing predominantly on the impact of h... Read More about Tasso's art and afterlives: the 'Gerusalemme liberata' in England.

A Syon Scribe Revealed by Her Signature: Mary Nevel and Her Manuscripts (2017)
Journal Article
O'Mara, V. (2017). A Syon Scribe Revealed by Her Signature: Mary Nevel and Her Manuscripts. Konferenser / Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien, 93, Continuity and change: Papers from the Birgitta Conference at Dartington 2015, editors Elin Andersson, Claes Gejrot, E. A. Jones, and Mia Åkestam. ISBN: 978-91-7402-449-4, 283-308

End Notes (2017)
Book
French, R., McKay, K., Chard, S., Sutter, M., Lavery, B., McCrory, M., Dearden, S., Wheatley, D., & Hautala, T. (2017). R. French, & K. McKay (Eds.). End Notes. Edge Publishing

A collection of stories by 8 writers, End Notes tackles with compassion, insight and humour changes in the way we view dying, death and bereavement and how best to mourn and commemorate those we love. This Arts & Humanities Research Council funded eb... Read More about End Notes.

Journeying, self-displacement and conflict with the other in selected works by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and Graham Greene (2017)
Thesis
Al-Kalo, H. M. Journeying, self-displacement and conflict with the other in selected works by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and Graham Greene. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224584

This thesis discusses the relationship between the Self and the Other by tracing selected literary characters through their journeys and experiences of self-displacement in foreign territories. The characters’ behaviour and their self-reflections are... Read More about Journeying, self-displacement and conflict with the other in selected works by Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and Graham Greene.

Lilian Bilocca (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Lavery, B. (2017). Lilian Bilocca (Vignette). In D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, E. Salter, & D. Starkey (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Hernández-Pérez, M., Corstorphine, K., & Stephens, D. (2017). Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK. Mutual Images, 2(Winter), 5-43. https://doi.org/10.32926/2017.2.HER.carto

This paper has as main objective to explore, adopting a historical and critical perspective, the release of film and anime TV in UK. This would be a first step towards the studio of the peculiar implementation of manganime Culture in Britain. Compare... Read More about Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK.

The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars (2016)
Book Chapter
Williams, S. (2016). The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations (118-137). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_9

Like the bite of the vampire, the theme of marking punctuates Stoker’s work. Birthmarks, the indelible touch of the devouring mother, are seared into the skin of the child. Stoker’s lesser-read Gothics express Victorian patriarchal gynaecological anx... Read More about The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars.

The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall (2016)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2016). The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to transformations (185-206). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_13

In this extract from the memoir of her father, Gerald: A Portrait (1934), Daphne du Maurier resurrects the actor-manager Gerald du Maurier and places him in Whitby in 1917. This port town of North Yorkshire had been a favourite holiday retreat of Ger... Read More about The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall.

Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations (2016)
Book
Wynne, C. (2016). C. Wynne (Ed.). Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047

'My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side,' warns Dracula. This statement is descriptive of the Gothic genre. Like the Count, the Gothic encompasses and has manifested itself in many forms. Bram Stoker and the Goth... Read More about Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations.

What can a participatory approach to evaluation contribute to the field of integrated care? (2016)
Journal Article
Eyre, L., Farrelly, M., & Marshall, M. (2017). What can a participatory approach to evaluation contribute to the field of integrated care?. BMJ Quality and Safety, 26(7), 588-594. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2016-005777

© 2017 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Better integration of care within the health sector and between health and social care is seen in many countries as an essential way of addressing the enduring problems of dwindling resources, changin... Read More about What can a participatory approach to evaluation contribute to the field of integrated care?.

Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage (2016)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2016). Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage. In K. Gelder (Ed.), New directions in popular fiction: Genre, distribution, reproduction (327-348). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_16

‘In dramatising a novel, there are many advantages but many difficulties’, notes Bram Stoker, the theatre critic for Dublin’s Evening Mail, after viewing Wilkie Collins’s adaptation of The Woman in White (1860) at Dublin’s Theatre Royal in April 1872... Read More about Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage.

Denise Mina’s Garnethill trilogy: Feminist crime fiction at the millennium (2016)
Book Chapter
Vanacker, S. (2016). Denise Mina’s Garnethill trilogy: Feminist crime fiction at the millennium. In K. Gelder (Ed.), New directions in popular fiction: Genre, distribution, reproduction (223-238). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_11

Appearing in the late 1970s, feminist crime fiction arose out of a distinctive social context, the political, social and cultural sea change brought about by the second feminist wave. As Maureen Reddy suggests, ‘[f]eminist literary criticism, feminis... Read More about Denise Mina’s Garnethill trilogy: Feminist crime fiction at the millennium.