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Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians (2024)
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Mottram, S. (2024). Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians. Notes and queries, Article gjae119. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjae119

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Scholars have long been aware of connections between the poet Andrew Marvell (1621–78), his father, the Reverend Andrew Marvell (1584–1641), and the branch of non-Trinitarianism known as Socinianism. Marvell the poet was accused... Read More about Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell’s Links to Non-Trinitarians.

Fang experiences in Whitby’s goth/ic theatre (2024)
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Wynne, C. (in press). Fang experiences in Whitby’s goth/ic theatre. Punk & Post-Punk, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.1386/punk

A sign which regularly appears on the door of St Mary’s Church in Whitby, North Yorkshire, alerts visitors that Dracula is not buried in the churchyard. Dracula arrives in Whitby in Bram Stoker’s fiction, exits the stage and finally turns to dust nea... Read More about Fang experiences in Whitby’s goth/ic theatre.

Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull (2024)
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McDonagh, B., Worthen, H., Mottram, S., & Buxton-Hill, S. (2024). Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull. Environment and History, 30(4), 585-614. https://doi.org/10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903577

This paper explores Hull's histories of living with water and flood in the period between the foundation of the town in the 1260s and c. 1700, examining how the inhabitants, Corporation and Commissioners of Sewers managed and governed water in order... Read More about Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull.

“Born Yesterday”: Philip Larkin and the Denial of Childhood (2023)
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Perry, S. (2023). “Born Yesterday”: Philip Larkin and the Denial of Childhood. English Studies, 104(7), 1236-1251. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2023.2188807

Very little has been said about Philip Larkin’s attitude towards children, despite the fact that they play a significant role in his writing as symbols of the conventional family life he chose not to live. This article seeks to bridge this notable ga... Read More about “Born Yesterday”: Philip Larkin and the Denial of Childhood.

Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull (2022)
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Mottram, S. (2023). Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull. Seventeenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2022.2142656

This article redresses a predominant focus on London among historians of health inequalities by turning to the port town of Kingston upon Hull and offering the first demographic analysis of burial records from Hull’s ‘great plague’ of 1637–38. The ar... Read More about Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull.

What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis (2022)
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Mendes, R., Fidélis, T., Roebling, P., Teles, F., & Farrelly, M. (in press). What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis. Critical Discourse Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2150668

Spatial planning policies are fundamental blocks for the implementation of sustainable development goals. Still, despite the growing adoption of environmental proxies, as it is nature-based solutions, the study of their institutionalization in policy... Read More about What is spatial planning saying? A conceptual and methodological framework to assess the institutionalization of nature using critical discourse analysis.

‘Start not, gentle reader!’: Re-reading Alicia LeFanu’s Helen Monteagle (1818) (2021)
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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).

Making Space: Key Popular Women Writers Then and Now (2021)
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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.

“A most excellent medicine”: Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell (2021)
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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.

Does the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) sufficiently prioritise enablement of access to therapeutic opioids? A systematic critical analysis of six INCB annual reports, 1968-2018 (2020)
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Clark, J. D., Johnson, M., Fabowale, B., Farrelly, M., & Currow, D. (in press). Does the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) sufficiently prioritise enablement of access to therapeutic opioids? A systematic critical analysis of six INCB annual reports, 1968-2018. Journal of Global Health Reports, 4, Article e2020042

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The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has overseen international drug control since 1968 with the dual remit of restricting illicit production and use of controlled substances, whilst enabling access for clinical purposes. Two... Read More about Does the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) sufficiently prioritise enablement of access to therapeutic opioids? A systematic critical analysis of six INCB annual reports, 1968-2018.

Mrs. Oliphant's Shopping: The Pleasures and Perils of Consumerism in Margaret Oliphant's Major Fiction (2019)
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Sanders, V. (2019). Mrs. Oliphant's Shopping: The Pleasures and Perils of Consumerism in Margaret Oliphant's Major Fiction. Yearbook of English Studies, 49, 48-66. https://doi.org/10.5699/yearenglstud.49.2019.0048

Margaret Oliphant’s novels make frequent reference to the consumer culture of the period, ranging from shopping in department stores to the purchase of art works by private collectors. Both female and male shoppers feature in her novels, and the good... Read More about Mrs. Oliphant's Shopping: The Pleasures and Perils of Consumerism in Margaret Oliphant's Major Fiction.

Charles Kingsley's Anthropology of the Generations (2019)
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Sanders, V. (2019). Charles Kingsley's Anthropology of the Generations. Journal of Victorian Culture, 24(3), 316-322. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcz019

In 1852, Charles Kingsley (1819-75) declared his wish to ‘put the anthropology of men of my own generation on as sound a footing as I can,’ so that they would have clear religious and moral principles with which to face the challenges ahead of them.... Read More about Charles Kingsley's Anthropology of the Generations.

Rethinking intertextuality in CDA (2019)
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Farrelly, M. (2020). Rethinking intertextuality in CDA. Critical Discourse Studies, 17(4), 359-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2019.1609538

Intertextuality–instances of texts linking to other texts (explicitly, implicitly, by referring to them or incorporating elements of them)–is a key concept with which CDA accounts for discursive elements in social relations of power and solidarity. H... Read More about Rethinking intertextuality in CDA.

Reform and order on the Elizabethan stage: Sir Thomas More to Hamlet (2018)
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Clare, J. (2018). Reform and order on the Elizabethan stage: Sir Thomas More to Hamlet. Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 154,

Im Zuge des religious turn in Studien zur Frühen Neuzeit ist bisher die Bedeutung der Zensur für die Durchsetzung konfessioneller Konformität wenig berücksichtigt worden. Gleichzeitig haben Arbeiten zur Theaterzensur deren Bedeutung für die Gestaltun... Read More about Reform and order on the Elizabethan stage: Sir Thomas More to Hamlet.

Passionate Uprisings in Shakespeare’s 'Lucrece' (2018)
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Kaegi, A. (2018). Passionate Uprisings in Shakespeare’s 'Lucrece'. Shakespeare, 14(3), 205-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2018.1504814

The phenomenon of passionate riot and its role in uprisings, fictional and historical, remains an analytical blind spot. Despite “the affective turn” in the humanities at the outset of the twenty-first century, scholarly studies have continued to foc... Read More about Passionate Uprisings in Shakespeare’s 'Lucrece'.

The religious geography of Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode”: popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts (2018)
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Mottram, S. (2018). The religious geography of Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode”: popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts. Seventeenth Century, 33(4), 441-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2018.1484636

Marvell’s “Ode” (1650) is an English poem about a British problem – a problem further problematized by religion. The “Ode” lauds Cromwell’s Irish and Scottish campaigns, but English responses to these “colonial” wars were in reality complicated by pr... Read More about The religious geography of Marvell’s “An Horatian Ode”: popery, presbytery, and parti-coloured picts.

Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge (2018)
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Fitzer, A. M. (2018). Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge. Romanticism, 24(2), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2018.0371

This article focuses upon Alicia LeFanu (fl. 1809–36), author of several poems, six multi-volume novels, a critical biography of her grandmother, Frances Sheridan, and articles for the Court Magazine. Descended from an eminent literary family, and si... Read More about Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge.