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Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge (2018)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2018). Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge. Romanticism, 24(2), 179-190. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2018.0371

This article focuses upon Alicia LeFanu (fl. 1809–36), author of several poems, six multi-volume novels, a critical biography of her grandmother, Frances Sheridan, and articles for the Court Magazine. Descended from an eminent literary family, and si... Read More about Fashionable connections: Alicia LeFanu and writing from the edge.

"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.

'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.

Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536) (2005)
Journal Article
Mottram, S. (2005). Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536). Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 36, 41-67. https://doi.org/10.1353/cjm.2005.0004

This article contests the assumptions of the social historians Foucault, Anderson, Gellner, and Habermas, all of whom date the origins of nationhood in Western Europe to the eighteenth century, and argue that nationhood superseded empire at this time... Read More about Imagining England in Richard Morison's pamphlets against the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536).