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Global discourses of democracy and an English city (2008)
Journal Article
Farrelly, M. (2008). Global discourses of democracy and an English city. Journal of Language and Politics, 7(3), 413-430. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.7.3.04far

In many contemporary polities, democracy is portrayed as a universal good, a democratic ideal appears to be spreading globally, its practice burgeoning; it seems to be appearing for the first time in some places and deepening in established democraci... Read More about Global discourses of democracy and an English city.

'An empire of itself': Arthur as icon of an English empire, 1509-1547 (2008)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2008). 'An empire of itself': Arthur as icon of an English empire, 1509-1547. Arthurian Literature, 25, 153 - 174. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846156113.007

This article responds to recent studies that have applied to early modern English literature the aims of the ‘new British history’, which seeks to bridge the divide between anglocentric and anglophobic approaches to Britain’s past. Critics have estab... Read More about 'An empire of itself': Arthur as icon of an English empire, 1509-1547.

How apply you this? Conflict and consensus in Coriolanus (2008)
Journal Article
Kaegi, A. (2008). How apply you this? Conflict and consensus in Coriolanus. Shakespeare, 4(4), 362 - 378. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450910802501089

The tense political debates that dominate the first three acts of Shakespeare's Coriolanus shed valuable light on a little understood feature of early modern political discourse that is pivotal to the tragic action. In the increasingly heated exchang... Read More about How apply you this? Conflict and consensus in Coriolanus.

Shakespeare's book: Essays in reading, writing and reception (2008)
Book
Meek, R., Rickard, J., & Wilson, R. (Eds.). (2008). Shakespeare's book: Essays in reading, writing and reception. Manchester University Press

This collection of essays is part of a new phase in Shakespeare studies. The traditional view of Shakespeare is that he was a man of the theatre who showed no interest in the printing of his plays, producing works that are only fully realised in perf... Read More about Shakespeare's book: Essays in reading, writing and reception.

Book review: The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Ed by Joanne Shattock; Deirdre d'Albertis; Josie Billington; Linda Hughes; Linda Peterson; Elisabeth Jay; Charlotte Mitchell; Marion Shaw; Alan Shelston (2008)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2008). Book review: The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Ed by Joanne Shattock; Deirdre d'Albertis; Josie Billington; Linda Hughes; Linda Peterson; Elisabeth Jay; Charlotte Mitchell; Marion Shaw; Alan Shelston. The Modern language review, 103(3), 835-838. https://doi.org/10.2307/20467939

Blind spots (2008)
Book
Rumens, C. (2008). Blind spots. Seren Books

Informed by a consciousness that is as fiercely personal and tender as it is public-minded and political, this compelling collection presents a wide range of poetry, from a sonnet, a sestina, and a villanelle, to a pantoum, a ghazal, or a fluid free... Read More about Blind spots.

Relating a life : Alicia LeFanu's Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan (2008)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2008). Relating a life : Alicia LeFanu's Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan. Women's Writing, 15(1), 32-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699080701871427

Since its publication in 1824, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan has remained the only biography of one of the eighteenth century's most successful women writers. It has also endured as the most wellknown of the writings of its... Read More about Relating a life : Alicia LeFanu's Memoirs of the life and writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan.

‘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.

Changes in the literary canon (2008)
Book Chapter
Thomas, J. (2008). Changes in the literary canon. In The Victorian literature handbook (163 - 176). Continuum Press

The "histories" of I Henry VI (2008)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2008). The "histories" of I Henry VI. In Shakespeare in Europe, History and Memory (79 - 89). Jagiellonian University Press