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The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (2015)
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(2015). R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

© Manchester University Press 2015. All right reserved. This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early moder... Read More about The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government (2014)
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Farrelly, M. (2014). Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315777948

In this new study, Farrelly gives a critical examination of democracy as it is conceived and practiced in contemporary advanced liberal nations. The received wisdom on democracy is probelmatized through a close analysis of discourse in combination wi... Read More about Discourse and democracy: Critical analysis of the language of government.

Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre (2014)
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Clare, J. (2014). Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626934

Shakespeare's unique status has made critics reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which some of his plays are the outcome of adaptation. In Shakespeare's Stage Traffic Janet Clare re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and comp... Read More about Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre.

Nuns' literacies in medieval Europe: the Hull dialogue (2013)
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Blanton, V., O’Mara, V., & Stoop, P. (Eds.). (2013). Nuns' literacies in medieval Europe: the Hull dialogue. Brepols

Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell (2013)
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Driver, M. W., & O’Mara, V. (Eds.). (2013). Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell. Turnhout: Brepols

Thomas Hardy and Desire (2013)
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Thomas, J. (2013). Thomas Hardy and Desire. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305060

Thomas Hardy and Desire employs a post-Lacanian approach to demonstrate the centrality of desire to Hardy's aesthetic project. Yearning, disappointment, frustration and loss determine the relationship of his characters and poetic personae to the worl... Read More about Thomas Hardy and Desire.

Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition (2013)
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Perry, S. (2013). Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199687336.001.0001

For many decades, R.S. Thomas has been portrayed according to terms that he himself helped to define. Drawing on the poet's status as a passionate defender of the Welsh nation, scholars have followed his lead in emphasising the Welsh credentials and... Read More about Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition.

Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale (2013)
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Kennedy, D. G., & Kennedy, C. (2013). Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale. Liverpool University Press

The introduction to the recent anthology Infinite Difference: Other poetries by UK women poets noted ‘the still dismissive and gendered critical language often used to describe women's poetry'. This is certainly true in the case of British women's ex... Read More about Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale.

William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890 (2013)
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Hanson, I. (2013). William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890. Anthem Press

William Morris and the Uses of Violence, 1856–1890 offers a new reading of Morris’s work, foregrounding his commitment to the idea of transformative violence. Hanson argues, contrary to prevailing critical opinion, that Morris’s work demonstrates an... Read More about William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890.

Thomas Hardy and desire: conceptions of the self (2013)
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(2013). Thomas Hardy and desire: conceptions of the self. Palgrave Macmillan

Thomas Hardy and Desire employs a post-Lacanian approach to demonstrate the centrality of desire to Hardy's aesthetic project. Yearning, disappointment, frustration and loss determine the relationship of his characters and poetic personae to the worl... Read More about Thomas Hardy and desire: conceptions of the self.

Under travelling skies: Departures from Larkin (2012)
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Forshaw, C. (2012). C. Forshaw (Ed.). Under travelling skies: Departures from Larkin. Kingston Upon Hull: Kingston Press

Anthology of poetry, prose and artwork by the Humber Writers in response to Larkin's Hull. Winner Larkin25 Words Award 2011-12. Contributors include Mary Aherne, James Booth, Ray French, Kath McKay, Christopher Reid, Carol Rumens, Maurice Rutherford,... Read More about Under travelling skies: Departures from Larkin.

Records of girlhood volume two: an anthology of Nineteenth-Century women's childhoods (2012)
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Sanders, V. (2012). Records of girlhood volume two: an anthology of Nineteenth-Century women's childhoods. Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Sanders again brings together autobiographical accounts of childhood that show women making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodg... Read More about Records of girlhood volume two: an anthology of Nineteenth-Century women's childhoods.

Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (2012)
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Mottram, S., & Prescott, S. (2012). S. Prescott, & S. Mottram (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism. London: Routledge

Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the union of Wales with England in 1536 to the beginnings of its industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century. T... Read More about Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism.

Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction (2012)
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Wynne, C. (2012). C. Wynne (Ed.). Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction. Abingdon, Oxon: The University of Hull

Though best known as the author of Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker’s theatrical reviews from Dublin’s Evening Mail, his published essays and interviews on the theatre, sele... Read More about Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction.

Lives of Shakespearian actors. V. Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry by their contemporaries. Vol. 3. Ellen Terry (2012)
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(Ed.). (2012). Lives of Shakespearian actors. V. Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry by their contemporaries. Vol. 3. Ellen Terry. Pickering & Chatto

Keidrych Rhys: The van pool: Collected poems (2012)
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Mundye, C. (2012). Keidrych Rhys: The van pool: Collected poems. Seren Books

This is a scholarly edition of the collected poems of Keidrych Rhys, the Anglo-Welsh modernist poet. It includes an Introduction by Charles Mundye of 8860 words and scholarly apparatus of 8,000 words.

Sketches, dispatches, Hull tales and ballads (2012)
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Forshaw, C. (2012). Sketches, dispatches, Hull tales and ballads. Kingston Press / Hull City Council

Anthology of prose and verse responding to Dickens bicentary. Humber Mouth Literary Festival 2012 Major Commission. Edited with Mary Aherne and featuring creative work by them together with writers associated with Hull. Dickens's themes presented in... Read More about Sketches, dispatches, Hull tales and ballads.

The literary North (2012)
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(Ed.). (2012). The literary North. Palgrave

According to George Orwell, the North was 'a strange country'. In a grim, industrial landscape, its working-class inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world permanently caught in the piercing gaze of 1930s realism. Stereotypes of the North have been t... Read More about The literary North.

The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere (2012)
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Kennedy, D. (2012). The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Examining a wide range of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that contemporary British poets writing out of both mainstream and avant-garde traditions challenge established critical models of ekphrasis with work that is more complex than represen... Read More about The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere.

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I (2011)
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(2011). A. M. Fitzer (Ed.), Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I. Routledge

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: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I.