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The Review of English Studies Prize Essay * 'The measured music of our meeting swords': William Morris's early romances and the transformative touch of violence (2010)
Journal Article
Hanson, I. (2010). The Review of English Studies Prize Essay * 'The measured music of our meeting swords': William Morris's early romances and the transformative touch of violence. Review of English Studies, 61(250), 435-454. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgq014

Between the showy chivalric pageantry of the 1839 Eglinton tournament and the literary appearance, in 1859, of Tennyson’s Arthurian Idylls of the King, William Morris published his first romances of medieval knighthood and battle. This essay will arg... Read More about The Review of English Studies Prize Essay * 'The measured music of our meeting swords': William Morris's early romances and the transformative touch of violence.

‘Only in dreams’: Philip Larkin and surrealism (2010)
Journal Article
Perry, S. (2010). ‘Only in dreams’: Philip Larkin and surrealism. English, 59(224), 95-119. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efp049

This article suggests that one of the most illuminating ways of approaching the poetry of Philip Larkin is through the philosophy and art of the Surrealists, including the work of some of the movement's most renowned practitioners: André Breton, Salv... Read More about ‘Only in dreams’: Philip Larkin and surrealism.

Genealogical Rolls and Charts (2010)
Book Chapter
(2010). Genealogical Rolls and Charts. In Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (672 - 677). Brill

co-author Professor Joan Holladay

A Short Essay about NeoMedievalism (2010)
Book Chapter
Coote, L. (2010). A Short Essay about NeoMedievalism. In Studies in Medievalism XIX. Defining Neomedievalism(s) (25 - 33). D.S. Brewer

Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite and Bram Stoker’s The Watter’s Mou' (2009)
Book
Wynne, C. (2009). Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite and Bram Stoker’s The Watter’s Mou'. Valancourt

In 1894, the publishing house of Archibald Constable & Co. launched a series of novels by well-known authors called The Acme Library. The two tales paired in this volume were the first two entries in the set. Unlike Constable's publication of Dracula... Read More about Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite and Bram Stoker’s The Watter’s Mou'.

Elizabeth Butler's literary and artistic landscapes : Ireland, Egypt and the Holy Land (2009)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2009). Elizabeth Butler's literary and artistic landscapes : Ireland, Egypt and the Holy Land. Prose Studies, 31(2), 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440350903323553

Although best known as a military artist and praised by John Ruskin, Elizabeth Butler (1846–1933) also produced two illustrated books of travel writing, Letters from the Holy Land (1903) and From Sketch-Book and Diary (1909). This essay examines Butl... Read More about Elizabeth Butler's literary and artistic landscapes : Ireland, Egypt and the Holy Land.

Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations (2009)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2009). Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations. In L. Delap, B. Griffin, & A. Wills (Eds.), The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (243-260). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250796

In Chapter 5 of Dickens’ Dombey and Son (1848), Mr Dombey, who has longed all his married life for a son to inherit the family business, finally acquires one — at the cost of his exhausted wife — and is planning little Paul’s christening ceremony. Hi... Read More about Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations.

Citizen participation and neighbourhood governance: analysing democratic practice (2009)
Journal Article
Farrelly, M. (2009). Citizen participation and neighbourhood governance: analysing democratic practice. Local government studies, 35(4), 387-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930902992675

From the late 1990s the New Labour government implemented changes to local government and, within the context of a discourse of 'democratic renewal', also introduced neighbourhood-based participatory Forums. In this paper, a framework is set out for... Read More about Citizen participation and neighbourhood governance: analysing democratic practice.

Film and television (2009)
Book Chapter
(2009). Film and television. In Knights in History and Legend (260 - 267). Global Publishing/Park Lane Books