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‘Motz el Son’: Pound’s musical modernism and the interpretation of medieval song (2008)
Journal Article
Mundye, C. (2008). ‘Motz el Son’: Pound’s musical modernism and the interpretation of medieval song. Cambridge Opera Journal, 20(1), 53. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954586708002401

The article explores an interdisciplinary conjunction of music, literature and modernism. I examine the relationship between aspects of early music scholarship and modernism, with specific reference to Ezra Pound's critical and editorial work on medi... Read More about ‘Motz el Son’: Pound’s musical modernism and the interpretation of medieval song.

Traces of shame: Margaret Atwood's portrayal of childhood bullying and its consequences in Cat's Eye (2008)
Journal Article
Jones, B. (2008). Traces of shame: Margaret Atwood's portrayal of childhood bullying and its consequences in Cat's Eye. Critical Survey, 20(1), 29 - 42. https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2008.200104

This article focuses on patterns of bullying and abuse in Atwood's portrayal of the 'friendship' between Elaine, Cordelia, Carol and Grace in this novel. It begins with a consideration of Elaine's background resulting in her susceptibility to this bu... Read More about Traces of shame: Margaret Atwood's portrayal of childhood bullying and its consequences in Cat's Eye.

The rebel, the lady and the 'anti': femininity, anti-feminism, and the Victorian woman writer (2006)
Journal Article
Heilmann, A., & Sanders, V. (2006). The rebel, the lady and the 'anti': femininity, anti-feminism, and the Victorian woman writer. Women's studies international forum, 29(3), 289-300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2006.04.008

Anti-feminist journalists and women writers had a crucial role in contributing to the feminist debate in Victorian Britain. As an organized political movement Victorian anti-feminism significantly post-dated the rise of anti-feminist literature in th... Read More about The rebel, the lady and the 'anti': femininity, anti-feminism, and the Victorian woman writer.

Cicely Hamilton's warriors: dramatic reinventions of militancy in the British women's suffrage movement (2005)
Journal Article
Cockin, K. (2005). Cicely Hamilton's warriors: dramatic reinventions of militancy in the British women's suffrage movement. Women's History Review, 14(3-4), 527-542. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020500200437

The campaigns for women's enfranchisement in Britain have been associated with public spectacle, metropolitan activity and sensational acts of militant law-breaking. The circumstances of the development, adaptation and performance of Cicely Hamilton'... Read More about Cicely Hamilton's warriors: dramatic reinventions of militancy in the British women's suffrage movement.

Reading the rhetoric of nationhood in two reformation pamphlets by Richard Morison and Nicholas Bodrugan (2005)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2005). Reading the rhetoric of nationhood in two reformation pamphlets by Richard Morison and Nicholas Bodrugan. Renaissance Studies, 19(4), 523-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2005.00116.x

This article seeks to redress a contemporary critical trend amongst social historians concerned to date the dawn of nationalism on our Western political horizons from the twilight period of empire at the end of the eighteenth century. It does so by e... Read More about Reading the rhetoric of nationhood in two reformation pamphlets by Richard Morison and Nicholas Bodrugan.

Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536) (2005)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2005). Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536). Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 36, 41-67. https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2005.0004

This article contests the assumptions of the social historians Foucault, Anderson, Gellner, and Habermas, all of whom date the origins of nationhood in Western Europe to the eighteenth century, and argue that nationhood superseded empire at this time... Read More about Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536).

Mrs Sheridan's active demon: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Sly Rake in Petticoats (2003)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2003). Mrs Sheridan's active demon: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Sly Rake in Petticoats. Eighteenth-Century Ireland, 18(1), 39-62. https://doi.org/10.3828/eci.2003.6

This article examines the ways in which Frances Sheridan, matriarch to one of Ireland's most significant literary families, singularly asserted her contribution to writing after Richardson in her successful and enduringly popular novel, Memoirs of Mi... Read More about Mrs Sheridan's active demon: Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Sly Rake in Petticoats.

Richard, son of Richard: Richard III and political prophecy (2000)
Journal Article
Coote, L., & Thornton, T. (2000). Richard, son of Richard: Richard III and political prophecy. Historical research : the bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 73(182), 321-330. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.00111

This article provides a new context for the politics surrounding the death of Edward IV, the accession of Edward V and his replacement in turn by Richard III. By examining prophecy texts, both those recorded at the time and those preserved in local t... Read More about Richard, son of Richard: Richard III and political prophecy.

Shakespeare and paradigms of early modern authorship
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Clare, J. Shakespeare and paradigms of early modern authorship. Journal of Early Modern Studies, 1(1), 137-153. https://doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-10641

The essay examines current thinking on early modern authorship within the competitive economies of the theatre and publishing industries. In the wake of Foucault's seminal essay, 'What is an Author?', there has been much investigation of the status,... Read More about Shakespeare and paradigms of early modern authorship.