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Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction (2012)
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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.

Keidrych Rhys: The van pool: Collected poems (2012)
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Mundye, C. (2012). Keidrych Rhys: The van pool: Collected poems. Seren Books

This is a scholarly edition of the collected poems of Keidrych Rhys, the Anglo-Welsh modernist poet. It includes an Introduction by Charles Mundye of 8860 words and scholarly apparatus of 8,000 words.

Sketches, dispatches, Hull tales and ballads (2012)
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Forshaw, C. (2012). Sketches, dispatches, Hull tales and ballads. Kingston Press / Hull City Council

Anthology of prose and verse responding to Dickens bicentary. Humber Mouth Literary Festival 2012 Major Commission. Edited with Mary Aherne and featuring creative work by them together with writers associated with Hull. Dickens's themes presented in... Read More about Sketches, dispatches, Hull tales and ballads.

The literary North (2012)
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(Ed.). (2012). The literary North. Palgrave

According to George Orwell, the North was 'a strange country'. In a grim, industrial landscape, its working-class inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world permanently caught in the piercing gaze of 1930s realism. Stereotypes of the North have been t... Read More about The literary North.

Locating the literary North (2012)
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(2012). Locating the literary North. In The literary North (240 - 252). Palgrave

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world": Britishness and foreignness in Le Carré's Karla trilogy (2012)
Book Chapter
Vanacker, S. (2012). "A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world": Britishness and foreignness in Le Carré's Karla trilogy. In J. Anderson, C. Miranda, & B. Pezzotti (Eds.), The Foreign in International Crime Writing: Transcultural Representations (22-34). Continuum

‘Still finest wits are stilling Venus Rose’: Robert Southwell's ‘Optima Deo’, Venus and Adonis, and Tasso's canto della rosa (2012)
Journal Article
Lawrence, J. (2013). ‘Still finest wits are stilling Venus Rose’: Robert Southwell's ‘Optima Deo’, Venus and Adonis, and Tasso's canto della rosa. Renaissance Studies, 27(3), 389-406. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2012.00816.x

It has been argued, with reference to Venus and Adonis, that Shakespeare is the poet targeted specifically by Robert Southwell in his mournful stanza on love poetry in ‘The Author to the Reader’; this essay argues instead that Southwell's remark has... Read More about ‘Still finest wits are stilling Venus Rose’: Robert Southwell's ‘Optima Deo’, Venus and Adonis, and Tasso's canto della rosa.

Introducing the literary North (2012)
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(2012). Introducing the literary North. In The literary North (44197). Palgrave

Joyful Convulsions: Dickens's Comings and Goings (2012)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. (2012). Joyful Convulsions: Dickens's Comings and Goings. 19 : interdisciplinary studies in the long nineteenth century, 14, 0 - 0. https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.603

The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere (2012)
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Kennedy, D. (2012). The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere. Routledge

Examining a wide range of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that contemporary British poets writing out of both mainstream and avant-garde traditions challenge established critical models of ekphrasis with work that is more complex than represen... Read More about The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere.

Queen Caroline’s pains and penalties: Silence and speech in the dramatic art of British women’s suffrage (2012)
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Cockin, K. (2012). Queen Caroline’s pains and penalties: Silence and speech in the dramatic art of British women’s suffrage. Law and literature, 24(1), 40-58. https://doi.org/10.1525/lal.2012.24.1.40

In Britain, the act that launched the militant campaign of the suffragettes in 1905 was the interruption of a political meeting in Manchester. The violent silencing and arrest of the women ensued. The women’s suffrage campaigns in Britain became more... Read More about Queen Caroline’s pains and penalties: Silence and speech in the dramatic art of British women’s suffrage.

Introduction (2012)
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Mottram, S., & Prescott, S. (2012). Introduction. In S. Mottram, & S. Prescott (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (3-15). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546131

In Writing Wales we are concerned, not only to trace the evolution of Wales' written representation over the period from the Renaissance to Romanticism', but also to chart in these written representations the changing motivations of writers, poets, a... Read More about Introduction.

Democratisation (2012)
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Seoane, E., & Farrelly, M. (2012). Democratisation. In The Oxford handbook of the history of English (392 - 401). Oxford University Press

"When despotism kept genius in chains": imagining Tasso's madness and imprisonment, 1748-1849 (2011)
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Lawrence, J. (2011). "When despotism kept genius in chains": imagining Tasso's madness and imprisonment, 1748-1849. Studies in Romanticism, 50(3), 475-503. https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2011.0013

This essay explores the European-wide fascination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the legendary biography of the celebrated sixteenth-century Italian poet, Torquato Tasso. It focuses on English poetic responses to Tasso’s p... Read More about "When despotism kept genius in chains": imagining Tasso's madness and imprisonment, 1748-1849.

Censorship (2011)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2011). Censorship. In The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (276 - 294). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566105.013.0016

This article discusses the control and regulation of playhouses during Shakespeare's career; The Book of Sir Thomas More; and Jacobean censorship. Elizabethan censorship in the decades preceding and coinciding with Shakespeare's early career evolved... Read More about Censorship.

Journeys to the Edge: Self-Identity, Salvation and Outlaw(ed) Space (2011)
Book Chapter
Coote, L. (2011). Journeys to the Edge: Self-Identity, Salvation and Outlaw(ed) Space. In Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition (47 - 66). Brepols

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839) (2011)
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Fitzer, A. M., & Walker, G. L. (Eds.). (2011). Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

This book is about Mrs. Hannah More, who had acted as a controversial patron to Ann Yearsley, and had used her own reputation as a poet in support of the abolitionist cause. It is the collaborative effort of Roberts, Bickersteth and Seeley that testi... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839).

Memoirs of Women Writers Part I, Volume 1: Alicia LeFanu, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan (1824) (2011)
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Fitzer, A. M. (Ed.). (2011). Memoirs of Women Writers Part I, Volume 1: Alicia LeFanu, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan (1824). London: Pickering & Chatto

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I (2011)
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(2011). A. M. Fitzer (Ed.), Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I. Routledge

This book is about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her charitable work. It is a principal source of reference for the work she undertook as an author, philanthropist and pioneer in the promotion and institution of educational opportunities for impoverished ch... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 3: [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs Trimmer (1814), Volume I.

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 4. [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer (1814), Volume II (2011)
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Fitzer, A. M., & Luria Walker, G. (Eds.). (2011). Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 4. [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer (1814), Volume II. Routledge

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This book is the second volume about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her charitable work. It contains selected content on her life and writings with original letters, her meditations and prayers for impoverished children in the early nineteenth... Read More about Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 4. [Anon.] Some Account of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Trimmer (1814), Volume II.