The theatre and political control
(2011)
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Clare, J. (2011). The theatre and political control. Thomas Middleton in context (176 - 184). Cambridge University Press
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Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker and the Lyceum's Vampires (2011)
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Wynne, C. (2011). Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker and the Lyceum's Vampires. Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence (17 - 32). Pickering & Chatto
Thinking Afresh about Thomas Wimbledon’s Paul’s Cross Sermon of c. 1387 (2010)
Journal Article
O'Mara, V. (2010). Thinking Afresh about Thomas Wimbledon’s Paul’s Cross Sermon of c. 1387. Leeds Studies in English, 41, 155-171
"What Will Survive of Us" : Thomas Hardy, Philip Larkin and the Legacy of Art : The Thomas Hardy Birthday Lecture (2010)
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Thomas, J. (2010). "What Will Survive of Us" : Thomas Hardy, Philip Larkin and the Legacy of Art : The Thomas Hardy Birthday Lecture. Thomas Hardy Journal, 6(2), 32-48
Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature (2010)
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Thomas, J. (2010). Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature. Yearbook of English Studies, 40(1/2), 246-272The sculptural trope enjoyed a revival in later Victorian literature, especially the classical sculptural nude. These ancient figures retain their function as mediators between the gods and their human votaries for their Victorian admirers, but they... Read More about Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature.
Nothing like the image and horror of it: King Lear and Heart of Darkness (2010)
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Meek, R. (2010). Nothing like the image and horror of it: King Lear and Heart of Darkness. Borrowers and lenders: the journal of Shakespeare and appropriation, 5(1),There are several allusions to King Lear at the end of Heart of Darkness, suggesting that Joseph Conrad might have had Shakespeare in mind during the composition of his novella. Both texts are concerned with the difficulty of producing meaning in the... Read More about Nothing like the image and horror of it: King Lear and Heart of Darkness.
Samuel Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso's Armida in England (2010)
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Lawrence, J. Samuel Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso's Armida in England. Renaissance Studies, 25(5), 648-665. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2010.00697.xThis essay argues that the earliest English work to offer a sustained poetic engagement with the figure of Armida, the celebrated pagan enchantress from Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1581), is Daniel’s The Complaint of Rosamond (1592). Unlike Spenser... Read More about Samuel Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso's Armida in England.
Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V (2010)
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Clare, J. (2010). Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V. In P. Holland (Ed.), Shakespeare Survey 63 (102-113). The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521769150.010More than any other playwright of the period, Shakespeare dramatized English history and in so doing experimented with different ways of representing the past. Within as well as between the tetralogies of pre-Tudor history, spanning at least a decade... Read More about Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V.
Spenser and Italian Literature (2010)
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Lawrence, J. (2010). Spenser and Italian Literature. In R. A. McCabe (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser (602-619). Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227365.013.0034This article focuses on Spenser's relationship with Italian literature. Spenser's profound relationship with Italian literature is manifest from his earliest printed poetry, even if initially his engagement with it seems to have been mediated through... Read More about Spenser and Italian Literature.
"Bring me that kiss" : incarnation and truth in William Morris’s The defence of Guenevere, and other poems (2010)
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Hanson, I. (2010). "Bring me that kiss" : incarnation and truth in William Morris’s The defence of Guenevere, and other poems. English, 59(227), 349-374. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efq023William Morris’s first volume of poetry, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858), performs acts of poetic incarnation and resurrection, giving fleshly life to characters long dead and speaking into being his own fictional creations, based on... Read More about "Bring me that kiss" : incarnation and truth in William Morris’s The defence of Guenevere, and other poems.
'Strength, work, duty, truth, honor bright': pan-Scandinavianism, pan-Germanicism and the myths of Thor the Thunderer (2010)
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Arnold, M. (2010). 'Strength, work, duty, truth, honor bright': pan-Scandinavianism, pan-Germanicism and the myths of Thor the Thunderer. The survival of myth: innovation, singularity and alterity (136 - 151). Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Critical discourse analysis in political studies: an illustrative analysis of the 'empowerment' agenda (2010)
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Farrelly, M. (2010). Critical discourse analysis in political studies: an illustrative analysis of the 'empowerment' agenda. Politics, 30(2), 98-104. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9256.2010.01372.x
De Chirico's threads (2010)
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Rumens, C. (2010). De Chirico's threads. Seren BooksDe Chirico’s Threads, the new collection of poems from Carol Rumens features an unusual centre-piece, a verse-play, fizzing with ideas and surrealist imagery, based on the life and work of the Italian painter Georges De Chirico, as well as forty page... Read More about De Chirico's threads.
A sustained movement: Philip Larkin's poetics of consensus (2010)
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Weston, D. (2010). A sustained movement: Philip Larkin's poetics of consensus. Textual Practice, 24(2), 313-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502361003595071Focusing upon Larkin's career as a whole, this article approaches the development of his poetry as a narrative in which to read the fluctuations in the configuration of culture and poetic discourse as it was moderated to interpret the evolution of po... Read More about A sustained movement: Philip Larkin's poetics of consensus.
'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century (2010)
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Sanders, V. R. (2010). 'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century. Studies in the Literary Imagination, 43(1), 49-67This article presents work as the possible site of a generational conflict over the definition of masculinity between parents and children, focusing on the father and son dynamic. It tackles cases of idle sons, or educated young men who cannot establ... Read More about 'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century.
"More than History can Pattern": Shakespeare and Historicism (2010)
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Meek, R. (2010). "More than History can Pattern": Shakespeare and Historicism. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 46(2), 221-243. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqp164This article explores current debates in Shakespeare studies regarding the claims of historicism and presentism. The article focuses upon Cymbeline and its fascination with the ways in which our attempts both to reconstruct the past and to understand... Read More about "More than History can Pattern": Shakespeare and Historicism.
Queer movie medievalisms. Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds, 2009 Farnham: Ashgate (2010)
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Coote, L. (2010). Queer movie medievalisms. Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, eds, 2009 Farnham: Ashgate. Journal of gender studies, 19(1), 105 - 107
The last poems of D.H. Lawrence: shaping a late style (2010)
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Jones, B. (2010). The last poems of D.H. Lawrence: shaping a late style. AshgateThis monograph is the first critical book to take Lawrence's late poetry as its starting-point, thus prioritising the real masterpieces of his mature style. The texts are read in the broad, interdisciplinary context of a consideration of ‘lateness' a... Read More about The last poems of D.H. Lawrence: shaping a late style.
Disappearing tricks: comedy and gender in D.H. Lawrence's late short fiction (2010)
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Jones, B. (2010). Disappearing tricks: comedy and gender in D.H. Lawrence's late short fiction. In H. Booth (Ed.), New D. H. Lawrence (130-147). Manchester: Manchester University Press
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)
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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/hgq014Between 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.