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The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall (2016)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2016). The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to transformations (185-206). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_13

In this extract from the memoir of her father, Gerald: A Portrait (1934), Daphne du Maurier resurrects the actor-manager Gerald du Maurier and places him in Whitby in 1917. This port town of North Yorkshire had been a favourite holiday retreat of Ger... Read More about The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall.

What can a participatory approach to evaluation contribute to the field of integrated care? (2016)
Journal Article
Eyre, L., Farrelly, M., & Marshall, M. (2017). What can a participatory approach to evaluation contribute to the field of integrated care?. BMJ Quality and Safety, 26(7), 588-594. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2016-005777

© 2017 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Better integration of care within the health sector and between health and social care is seen in many countries as an essential way of addressing the enduring problems of dwindling resources, changin... Read More about What can a participatory approach to evaluation contribute to the field of integrated care?.

Denise Mina’s Garnethill trilogy: Feminist crime fiction at the millennium (2016)
Book Chapter
Vanacker, S. (2016). Denise Mina’s Garnethill trilogy: Feminist crime fiction at the millennium. In K. Gelder (Ed.), New directions in popular fiction: Genre, distribution, reproduction (223-238). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_11

Appearing in the late 1970s, feminist crime fiction arose out of a distinctive social context, the political, social and cultural sea change brought about by the second feminist wave. As Maureen Reddy suggests, ‘[f]eminist literary criticism, feminis... Read More about Denise Mina’s Garnethill trilogy: Feminist crime fiction at the millennium.

Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage (2016)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2016). Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage. In K. Gelder (Ed.), New directions in popular fiction: Genre, distribution, reproduction (327-348). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_16

‘In dramatising a novel, there are many advantages but many difficulties’, notes Bram Stoker, the theatre critic for Dublin’s Evening Mail, after viewing Wilkie Collins’s adaptation of The Woman in White (1860) at Dublin’s Theatre Royal in April 1872... Read More about Popular Fiction in Performance: Gaskell, Collins and Stevenson on Stage.

Joseph Skipsey, the 'peasant poet', and an unpublished letter from W. B. Yeats (2016)
Journal Article
Tait, G. (2016). Joseph Skipsey, the 'peasant poet', and an unpublished letter from W. B. Yeats. Literature and History, 25(2), 134-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306197316669264

This article examines an unpublished letter from Yeats to the ‘pitman-poet’ Joseph Skipsey, which gives new insight into the early career of Yeats and a deeper understanding of the possibilities and capabilities of the Victorian working-classes. It a... Read More about Joseph Skipsey, the 'peasant poet', and an unpublished letter from W. B. Yeats.

Harriet Martineau and the birth of disciplines: Nineteenth-Century intellectual powerhouse (2016)
Book
Sanders, V. (2016). V. Sanders, & G. Weiner (Eds.), Harriet Martineau and the birth of disciplines: Nineteenth-Century intellectual powerhouse. Routledge

One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria. She went on to write fiction... Read More about Harriet Martineau and the birth of disciplines: Nineteenth-Century intellectual powerhouse.

Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines : Nineteenth-Century intellectual powerhouse (2016)
Book
Sanders, V., & Weiner, G. (Eds.). (2016). Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines : Nineteenth-Century intellectual powerhouse. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586229

A collection of essays by various contributors each addressing Martineau's contribution to an intellectual discipline. Introduction and Afterword by Valerie Sanders and Gaby Weiner. I have also contributed one chapter on Martineau's Journalism

'I have an all important review to write': Harriet Martineau's journalism (2016)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2016). 'I have an all important review to write': Harriet Martineau's journalism. In V. Sanders, & G. Weiner (Eds.), Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines : Nineteenth-century intellectual powerhouse (187-200). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586229

Like many of her contemporaries who wrote non-fictional prose, Martineau is a distinctive stylist. Compared with the key ‘sage’ writers of her day – Ruskin and Carlyle – she may sound understated. As a journalist who felt strongly about the issues sh... Read More about 'I have an all important review to write': Harriet Martineau's journalism.

The accession of James I: Historical and cultural consequences (2016)
Book
Burgess, G., Wymer, R., & Lawrence, J. (2016). The accession of James I: Historical and cultural consequences. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501584

This book analyzes the consequences of the accession of James I in 1603 for English and British history, politics, literature and culture. Questioning the extent to which 1603 marked a radical break with the past, the book explores the Scottish, Wels... Read More about The accession of James I: Historical and cultural consequences.

On the origins of the Gothic novel : from Old Norse to Otranto (2016)
Book Chapter
Arnold, M. (2016). On the origins of the Gothic novel : from Old Norse to Otranto. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: formations to transformations (14-29). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047

This essay assesses the extent to which Old Norse tradition provided the basis for a subspecies of literary horror. It focuses on those formations and interpretations of Old Norse Literature as it came gradually to light from the sixteenth century on... Read More about On the origins of the Gothic novel : from Old Norse to Otranto.

Pivotal poems : turning back to Lawrence's Bay (2015)
Journal Article
Jones, B. (2015). Pivotal poems : turning back to Lawrence's Bay. D.H. Lawrence Review, 40(2), 54-71

The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 5 Volume 20: Hester (2015)
Book
Sanders, V. (2015). V. Sanders (Ed.), The selected works of Margaret Oliphant, Part 5 Volume 20: Hester. Routledge

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 5 Volume 20: Hester.

Ekphrasis and poetry (2015)
Book Chapter
Kennedy, D. (2015). Ekphrasis and poetry. In G. Rippl (Ed.), Handbook of Intermediality (82-91). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110311075-006

The ekphrastic poem, like its close cousin the elegiac poem, is more a mood or method of working than a mode with a set of distinctive, clearly defined characteristics. This chapter aims to complement the chapter on theory by James Heffernan by surve... Read More about Ekphrasis and poetry.

Becoming plant and posthumanism in Jeff Noon's Pollen (1995) (2015)
Journal Article
Cockin, K. (2016). Becoming plant and posthumanism in Jeff Noon's Pollen (1995). Critique, 57(1), 94-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1019405

This article examines Jeff Noon’s cyberpunk novel Pollen (1995), arguing for its innovative treatment of spatial and species identities. In addition to the challenging representations of gender and feminism identified by Val Gough, there are other ki... Read More about Becoming plant and posthumanism in Jeff Noon's Pollen (1995).

‘We do it to keep him alive’: bereaved individuals’ experiences of online suicide memorials and continuing bonds (2015)
Journal Article
Bell, J., Bailey, L., & Kennedy, D. (2015). ‘We do it to keep him alive’: bereaved individuals’ experiences of online suicide memorials and continuing bonds. Mortality, 20(4), 375-389. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2015.1083693

This paper presents draws on interviews with individuals who have experience of creating, maintaining and utilising Facebook sites in memory of a loved one who has died by suicide. We argue that Facebook enables the deceased to be an on-going active... Read More about ‘We do it to keep him alive’: bereaved individuals’ experiences of online suicide memorials and continuing bonds.

Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue (2015)
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Blanton, V., O’Mara, V., & Stoop, P. (Eds.). (2015). Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue. Turnhout: Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC-EB.5.108474

The present volume is the second in a series of three integrated publications, the first produced in 2013 as Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue. Like that volume, this collection of essays, focused on various aspects of nuns' lite... Read More about Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue.

Nuns and Writing in Late Medieval England: The Quest Continues (2015)
Book Chapter
O'Mara, V. (2015). Nuns and Writing in Late Medieval England: The Quest Continues. In V. Blanton, V. O'Mara, & P. Stoop (Eds.), Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue (123-147). Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC-EB.5.105528

'Rue e'en for ruth': Richard II and the imitation of sympathy (2015)
Book Chapter
Meek, R. (2015). 'Rue e'en for ruth': Richard II and the imitation of sympathy. In R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (130-152). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719090783.003.0007

This chapter examines the various instances of sympathetic engagement and emotional correspondence in Shakespeare’s Richard II. It explores the various figured audiences and emotionally engaged onlookers that the play depicts, and the ways in which t... Read More about 'Rue e'en for ruth': Richard II and the imitation of sympathy.

(S)wept From Power: two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III (2015)
Book Chapter
Kaegi, A. (2015). (S)wept From Power: two versions of tyrannicide in Richard III. In R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of Emotion: understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (200-220). Manchester University Press

The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries (2015)
Book
(2015). R. Meek, & E. Sullivan (Eds.), The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

© Manchester University Press 2015. All right reserved. This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early moder... Read More about The Renaissance of emotion: Understanding affect in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.