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‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts (2024)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2024). ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts. In A. K. Regis, & D. Wynne (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts (89-101). Edinburgh University Press

The Brontë family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspiration not only for Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, but also for their parents. Here were fostered t... Read More about ‘To novels and plays not inclined’: Patrick and Maria Brontë and the Arts.

Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell's Links to Non-Trinitarians (2024)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2024). Andrew Marvell and Paul Best: New Light on Marvell's Links to Non-Trinitarians. Notes and queries, 71(4), 431-440. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjae119

Opening paragraph:

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.

Empathy Matters: Inclusive Co-design (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kaegi, A., & Fallin, L. (2024, September). Empathy Matters: Inclusive Co-design. Presented at RAISE Conference 2024: Equity in Attainment & Student Success, University of Leicester

The effectiveness of inclusive teaching is crucially dependent on whether the curricula and wider learning environment are themselves inclusive. The sharp growth in and internationalisation of the PGT cohorts on Masters programmes in Education at Hul... Read More about Empathy Matters: Inclusive Co-design.

‘All the unlawful issue that their lust / Since then hath made between them’: children and absent motherhood in Early Modern English Cleopatra plays (2024)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. ‘All the unlawful issue that their lust / Since then hath made between them’: children and absent motherhood in Early Modern English Cleopatra plays. In C. Ragni (Ed.), Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 3: Antony and Cleopatra (127-150). Edizioni ETS. https://doi.org/10.13136/wf4xrq28

Recent criticism on 'Antony and Cleopatra' has started to argue for a closer correspondence between Shakespeare’s play and the English closet dramas ('The Tragedie of Antonie' by Mary Sidney Herbert, and 'The Tragedie of Cleopatra' by Samuel Daniel),... Read More about ‘All the unlawful issue that their lust / Since then hath made between them’: children and absent motherhood in Early Modern English Cleopatra plays.

“What country, friends, is this?”: Displaced Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth Night and Its Italian Models (2024)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. (2024). “What country, friends, is this?”: Displaced Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth Night and Its Italian Models. In S. Bigliazzi (Ed.), Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources: Memory and Reuse (181-197). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003301615-12

This chapter challenges the critical consensus that Barnabe Riche’s prose tale “‘Of Apolonius and Silla”’ (1581) is the “‘most immediate source”’ for Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (1601) by examining in detail the play’s relationship with two Italian m... Read More about “What country, friends, is this?”: Displaced Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth Night and Its Italian Models.

'All-sufficient to one another'? Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle (2024)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2024). 'All-sufficient to one another'? Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle. In K. Boardman, & S. Jones (Eds.), Popular Victorian Women Writers (90-110). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526185617.00010

Charlotte Yonge had an immature mind, an undistinguished style, and the values of a pious schoolgirl', Robert Liddell complained, as long ago as 1947. If Yonge herself ever thought of her life as 'starved' or limited, it was in the area of childhood... Read More about 'All-sufficient to one another'? Charlotte Yonge and the family chronicle.

SHAPE-ing the Future of Sustainability Workshop (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kaegi, A., Ryan, B., & Walters, E.-R. (2024, July). SHAPE-ing the Future of Sustainability Workshop. Presented at Integrating Educational Thinking. International Teaching and Learning Conference 2024., Teaching Excellence Academy, University of Hull

Fang experiences in Whitby’s goth/ic theatre (2024)
Journal Article
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.

Conventions are Forever: The influence of medieval romance narrative conventions on female agency in the Bond film franchise (2024)
Thesis
Morton, J. Conventions are Forever: The influence of medieval romance narrative conventions on female agency in the Bond film franchise. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4866115

The iconic Bond girl has been the subject of considerable scholarly interest; quite rightly this has mainly focused on areas such as 'stereotypical' female behaviours, chauvinism and the sexual objectification of women. In a unique analysis, I consid... Read More about Conventions are Forever: The influence of medieval romance narrative conventions on female agency in the Bond film franchise.

Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull (2024)
Journal Article
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.

Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf: Culinary Civilization (2024)
Book
O'Brien, N. (2024). Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf: Culinary Civilization. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871729.001.0001

Writing about food has long been a part of autobiographical expression that combines culinary record-keeping and histories, drawing on the personal and the cultural. Concentrating on the transatlantic work of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virg... Read More about Food and Culture in the Works of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, and Virginia Woolf: Culinary Civilization.

People Power and Water Politics (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Worthen, H., McDonagh, B., Smith, K., Brookes, E., Hughes, G., & Mottram, S. (2024). People Power and Water Politics. London

Opening paragraph:
In 1622, the town of Kingston-Upon-Hull submitted a petition to King Charles I. In it, urban governors outlined the watery hazards faced by the town, namely that it stood ‘upon the dangerous river of Humber, being a great and very... Read More about People Power and Water Politics.

Conscience in Marvell (2023)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (in press). Conscience in Marvell. In A. Hadfield, & P. Hammond (Eds.), Words at War: The Contested Language of the English Civil War (237-50). Oxford University Press

Andrew Marvell today enjoys a reputation as a Restoration champion of religious freedom, but this reputation can seem out of step with Marvell’s more outspoken attacks on protestant sects in his Commonwealth poems, and with his ambivalent approach, i... Read More about Conscience in Marvell.

Wet Feet Warm Hearts Strong Places: a community created zine about flood resilience in Hull (2023)
Digital Artefact
Smith, K., Brookes, E., McDonagh, B., Chamberlain, J., Hughes, G., & Dorton, L. (2023). Wet Feet Warm Hearts Strong Places: a community created zine about flood resilience in Hull

Introduction
Welcome to the Risky Cities zine. The art, poetry, imagery and stories in this zine have been created as part of the Risky Cities project at the University of Hull, which has explored the city of Hull's long history of living with water... Read More about Wet Feet Warm Hearts Strong Places: a community created zine about flood resilience in Hull.

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture (2023)
Book
Meek, R. (2023). Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009280259

Book description:
This is the first comprehensive study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing a deeply researched and interdisciplinary examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture. It argues that the term sympathy... Read More about Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture.

The impact of the climate emergency on 21st century fiction (2023)
Thesis
Gillen, G. H. The impact of the climate emergency on 21st century fiction. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4321483

This research supports a new movement in contemporary literature: cli-fi. The term has been attributed to environmental dystopias as far back as the nineteen-sixties. In the 21st Century, many writers are imagining life during or after severe changes... Read More about The impact of the climate emergency on 21st century fiction.