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‘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.

The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere (2012)
Book
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)
Journal Article
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)
Book Chapter
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)
Book Chapter
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)
Journal Article
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.

Memoirs of Women Writers, Part I, Volume 2: William Roberts, Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More (1839) (2011)
Book
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 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.

"Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle (2011)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2011). "Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 38(2), 26-37. https://doi.org/10.7227/nctf.38.2.5

This article aims to give Alicia Sheridan some share of the limelight so far afforded Richard Brinsley and, more recently, their mother, Frances Sheridan. The article examines for the first time Alicia Sheridan's contribution to the enthusiasm for pr... Read More about "Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle.

"This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author (2011)
Journal Article
Meek, R., & Rickard, J. (2011). "This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author. Shakespeare, 7(3), 269-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2011.589058

Critical and popular interest in Cardenio/Double Falsehood has focused largely on Shakespeare. Through a combination of Anglocentrism and Shakespeare-centrism, Shakespeare's collaborator, John Fletcher, and the Spanish author of their source, Miguel... Read More about "This orphan play": Cardenio and the construction of the author.

"So unreal": The unhomely moment in the poetry of Philip Larkin (2011)
Journal Article
Perry, S. J. (2011). "So unreal": The unhomely moment in the poetry of Philip Larkin. English Studies, 92(4), 432-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2011.574030

Philip Larkin has often been perceived as a poet of the everyday, his work projecting a stable and easily identifiable version of reality. However, while there can be little doubt that Larkin's ability to evoke the sights and sounds of the “weekday w... Read More about "So unreal": The unhomely moment in the poetry of Philip Larkin.

From Waterloo to Jellalabad: The Irish and Scots at war in R Elizabeth Thompson Butler D and W. F. Butler (2011)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2011). From Waterloo to Jellalabad: The Irish and Scots at war in R Elizabeth Thompson Butler D and W. F. Butler. Journal of European Studies, 41(2), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047244111399719

This essay examines the paintings of the British war artist Elizabeth Thompson Butler in conjunction with the travel, military and political writings of her husband William Francis Butler. It explores how their work both subscribes to and deviates fr... Read More about From Waterloo to Jellalabad: The Irish and Scots at war in R Elizabeth Thompson Butler D and W. F. Butler.