All Outputs (309)

A sustained movement: Philip Larkin's poetics of consensus (2010)
Journal Article
Weston, D. (2010). A sustained movement: Philip Larkin's poetics of consensus. Textual Practice, 24(2), 313-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502361003595071

Focusing 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)
Journal Article
Sanders, V. R. (2010). 'Is there no work in hand?' : the idle son theme at mid-century. Studies in the Literary Imagination, 43(1), 49-67

This 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)
Journal Article
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/cqp164

This 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)
Journal Article
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. Ashgate

This 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)
Book Chapter
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 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)
Journal Article
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/hgq014

Between 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.

‘Only in dreams’: Philip Larkin and surrealism (2010)
Journal Article
Perry, S. (2010). ‘Only in dreams’: Philip Larkin and surrealism. English, 59(224), 95-119. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efp049

This article suggests that one of the most illuminating ways of approaching the poetry of Philip Larkin is through the philosophy and art of the Surrealists, including the work of some of the movement's most renowned practitioners: André Breton, Salv... Read More about ‘Only in dreams’: Philip Larkin and surrealism.

Genealogical Rolls and Charts (2010)
Book Chapter
(2010). Genealogical Rolls and Charts. In Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (672 - 677). Brill

co-author Professor Joan Holladay

The post-war British literature handbook (2010)
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(Ed.). (2010). The post-war British literature handbook. Continuum

The collected letters of Ellen Terry. Vol.1, 1865-1888 (2010)
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Cockin, K. (2010). The collected letters of Ellen Terry. Vol.1, 1865-1888. London

Ellen Terry (1847–1928) was one of the first modern stars of the British stage. She toured America and Australia and was adored by the public, and has become an icon of Victorian womanhood. A transitional figure, Terry straddled both the Victorian an... Read More about The collected letters of Ellen Terry. Vol.1, 1865-1888.

A Short Essay about NeoMedievalism (2010)
Book Chapter
Coote, L. (2010). A Short Essay about NeoMedievalism. In Studies in Medievalism XIX. Defining Neomedievalism(s) (25 - 33). D.S. Brewer

Sherlock Holmes and the problems of war: Traumatic detections (2010)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2010). Sherlock Holmes and the problems of war: Traumatic detections. English literature in transition, 1880-1920, 53(1), 29-53. https://doi.org/10.2487/elt.53.1%282010%290051

Strathallan (1816), by Alicia LeFanu (2009)
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(2009). A. M. Fitzer (Ed.), Strathallan (1816), by Alicia LeFanu. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315649252

© Anna M. Fitzer 2008. All rights reserved. A novel, which addresses central themes of adultery, obsession and inheritance. It follows the fortunes of Matilda Melbourne who displays virtue, delicacy and an unwavering commitment to the sometimes ruthl... Read More about Strathallan (1816), by Alicia LeFanu.

John Glendening. The evolutionary imagination in late-Victorian novels: an entangled bank. Burlington: Ashgate, 2007 (2009)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2009). John Glendening. The evolutionary imagination in late-Victorian novels: an entangled bank. Burlington: Ashgate, 2007. English literature in transition, 1880-1920, 52(3), 346 - 348

Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare (2009)
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Meek, R. (2009). Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare. The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315248400

This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'literary dramatist', suggesting ways in which his work... Read More about Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite and Bram Stoker’s The Watter’s Mou' (2009)
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Wynne, C. (2009). Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite and Bram Stoker’s The Watter’s Mou'. Valancourt

In 1894, the publishing house of Archibald Constable & Co. launched a series of novels by well-known authors called The Acme Library. The two tales paired in this volume were the first two entries in the set. Unlike Constable's publication of Dracula... Read More about Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Parasite and Bram Stoker’s The Watter’s Mou'.

Elizabeth Butler's literary and artistic landscapes : Ireland, Egypt and the Holy Land (2009)
Journal Article
Wynne, C. (2009). Elizabeth Butler's literary and artistic landscapes : Ireland, Egypt and the Holy Land. Prose Studies, 31(2), 126-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440350903323553

Although best known as a military artist and praised by John Ruskin, Elizabeth Butler (1846–1933) also produced two illustrated books of travel writing, Letters from the Holy Land (1903) and From Sketch-Book and Diary (1909). This essay examines Butl... Read More about Elizabeth Butler's literary and artistic landscapes : Ireland, Egypt and the Holy Land.

Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations (2009)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2009). Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations. In L. Delap, B. Griffin, & A. Wills (Eds.), The Politics of Domestic Authority in Britain since 1800 (243-260). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250796

In Chapter 5 of Dickens’ Dombey and Son (1848), Mr Dombey, who has longed all his married life for a son to inherit the family business, finally acquires one — at the cost of his exhausted wife — and is planning little Paul’s christening ceremony. Hi... Read More about Godfathering: the politics of Victorian family relations.

Citizen participation and neighbourhood governance: analysing democratic practice (2009)
Journal Article
Farrelly, M. (2009). Citizen participation and neighbourhood governance: analysing democratic practice. Local government studies, 35(4), 387-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930902992675

From the late 1990s the New Labour government implemented changes to local government and, within the context of a discourse of 'democratic renewal', also introduced neighbourhood-based participatory Forums. In this paper, a framework is set out for... Read More about Citizen participation and neighbourhood governance: analysing democratic practice.