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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)
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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.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I, Volume 3: Literary Criticism 1877-1886 (2011)
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(2011). V. Sanders (Ed.), The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I, Volume 3: Literary Criticism 1877-1886. 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 I, Volume 3: Literary Criticism 1877-1886.

The spatial supplement: landscape and perspective in W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn (2011)
Journal Article
Weston, D. (2011). The spatial supplement: landscape and perspective in W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn. cultural geographies, 18(2), 171-186. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474010397596

For cultural geographers, uncertainties inhabit the concept of ‘landscape'. The term shuttles between describing embodied practice of immersion in an environment, and indicating representational strategies for looking at an environment. This article... Read More about The spatial supplement: landscape and perspective in W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn.

Tiger (2011)
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(2011). Tiger. HappenStance Press

Chapbook collection of poems.    

'Open secrets': Masculine subjectivity and other men's bodies in some late twentieth-century British poetry (2011)
Journal Article
Kennedy, D. (2011). 'Open secrets': Masculine subjectivity and other men's bodies in some late twentieth-century British poetry. Textual Practice, 25(1), 87-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2011.537551

Stephen Heath has asked in 'Male Feminism', 'Do I write male? What does that mean?' Contemporary British poetry likes to imagine itself as ideologically innocent, particularly in terms of male subjectivity and masculinity. Masculinity becomes, theref... Read More about 'Open secrets': Masculine subjectivity and other men's bodies in some late twentieth-century British poetry.

Ellen Terry: preserving the relics and creating the brand (2011)
Book Chapter
(2011). Ellen Terry: preserving the relics and creating the brand. In Ellen Terry: spheres of influence (133 - 148). Pickering and Chatto

The collection of more than 20,000 papers belonging to Ellen Terry and Edith Craig at Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent comprise one of the UK’s most significant theatre archives. This essay outlines the history of the archive, the active collection... Read More about Ellen Terry: preserving the relics and creating the brand.

The theatre and political control (2011)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2011). The theatre and political control. In Thomas Middleton in context (176 - 184). Cambridge University Press

Nothing like the image and horror of it: King Lear and Heart of Darkness (2010)
Journal Article
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.