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‘O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus (2013)
Journal Article
Meek, R. (2013). ‘O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare survey, 66, 287 - 297. https://doi.org/10.1017/SSO9781107300699.021

Various critics have considered Titus Andronicus in relation to questions of language, grief, and violence. In this paper I want to explore a more specific aspect of the play's interest in the passions: its preoccupation with the concept of sympathy.... Read More about ‘O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus.

"Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier (2013)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2013). "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier. In K. Hadjiafxendi, & T. Zakreski (Eds.), Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century. Artistry and Industry in Britain (227-242). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574561

The chapter considers the career of Thomas Henry Huxley's artist daughter Marian Collier, and what it tells us about the 'invisibility' of Victorian women artists: some shared themes of which are reflected in Ella Hepworth Dixons  1894 novel, 'The St... Read More about "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier.

Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns (2013)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2013). Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns. In W. Maley, & R. Loughnane (Eds.), Celtic Shakespeare : The Bard and the Borderers (169-183). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571096-11

Heroism is a key characteristic of Cymbeline’s Britons, and it played a crucial role also in the construction of Britain in the period of the play’s composition, although it is an ethos we tend today to associate more with Henry Frederick than with h... Read More about Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns.

Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World (2013)
Journal Article
Arnold, M. (2013). Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World. Journal of the North Atlantic, Special volume 4, 199-206. https://doi.org/10.3721/037.004.sp404

This essay looks at George Mackay Brown's novel of 1992, Vinland, in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century “foundation myth” literature inspired by the Viking discovery of North America as originally recounted in medieval Icelandic sagas.... Read More about Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World.

'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson (2013)
Book Chapter
Weston, D. (2013). 'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson. In N. Alexander, & D. Cooper (Eds.), Poetry & geography: Space & place in post-war poetry (105-119). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846318641.003.0008

Ciaran Carson is increasingly recognised as a poet of place, of the city, and specifically of Belfast. However, Carson's work is also permeated by the Northern Irish Troubles in thoroughgoing ways. This essay elucidates the ways in which his poetry o... Read More about 'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson.

'What say the citizens?' in Shakespeare's Richard III? (2013)
Journal Article
Kaegi, A. (2013). 'What say the citizens?' in Shakespeare's Richard III?. Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2, 91-116. https://doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-2

Shakespeare's residency in London coincided with a period in which the City underwent unprecedented demographic growth and commercial expansion. By the 1590s two thirds to three quarters of the adult males resident in the City were citizens, at the t... Read More about 'What say the citizens?' in Shakespeare's Richard III?.

Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan (2013)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2013). Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan. Women's Writing, 20(1), 64-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2013.754258

This article adopts a literal and metaphorical conceptualization of progeny to explore influence in relation to the works of the novelist and dramatist Frances Sheridan (1724-66) and her youngest daughter Elizabeth Sheridan, afterwards LeFanu (1758-1... Read More about Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 2 Volume 5: Literary Criticism 1887-97 (2012)
Book
(2012). V. Sanders, J. Shattock, & J. Wilkes (Eds.), The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 2 Volume 5: Literary Criticism 1887-97. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003513186

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and mor... Read More about The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 2 Volume 5: Literary Criticism 1887-97.

Records of girlhood volume two: an anthology of Nineteenth-Century women's childhoods (2012)
Book
Sanders, V. (2012). Records of girlhood volume two: an anthology of Nineteenth-Century women's childhoods. Routledge

In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Sanders again brings together autobiographical accounts of childhood that show women making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodg... Read More about Records of girlhood volume two: an anthology of Nineteenth-Century women's childhoods.

Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate (2012)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2012). Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate. In The Oxford handbook of literature and the English Revolution (498 - 515). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560608.013.0027

This article begins with a discussion of the parliamentary-Puritan opposition to theatre during the Civil Wars and after the regicide. It then turns to the restoration of the monarchy in 1653, and the efforts of Richard Flecknoe and William Davenant... Read More about Countering anti-theatricality: Davenant and the drama of the protectorate.

Flow requirements of non-salmonids (2012)
Journal Article
Cowx, I. G., Noble, R. A., Nunn, A. D., Bolland, J., Walton, S., Peirson, G., & Harvey, J. P. (2012). Flow requirements of non-salmonids. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 19(6), 548-556. https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12017

Research into the relationships between non-salmonid fish population dynamics and discharge is in its infancy compared with salmonids, thus compromising the ability to manage flows in rivers and maintain ecological status. This study reviews the pote... Read More about Flow requirements of non-salmonids.

Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (2012)
Book
Mottram, S., & Prescott, S. (2012). S. Prescott, & S. Mottram (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Routledge

Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the union of Wales with England in 1536 to the beginnings of its industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century. T... Read More about Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism.

William Browne and the writing of early Stuart Wales (2012)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2012). William Browne and the writing of early Stuart Wales. In S. Mottram, & S. Prescott (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (91-107). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546131

A shared ethnic crisis has produced dramatically antithetical solutions, and whereas the myth-making of Pugh and Evans is in essence no more than an effort to salvage the myth-symbol complex of the Welsh past, Morgan Llwyd's work seeks to fashion tha... Read More about William Browne and the writing of early Stuart Wales.

Thomas Hardy and the visual arts (2012)
Book Chapter
(2012). Thomas Hardy and the visual arts. In Thomas Hardy in context (436 - 448). Cambridge University Press

Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction (2012)
Book
Wynne, C. (2012). C. Wynne (Ed.). Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction. The University of Hull

Though best known as the author of Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker’s theatrical reviews from Dublin’s Evening Mail, his published essays and interviews on the theatre, sele... Read More about Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction.