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Flow requirements of non-salmonids (2012)
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Cowx, I. G., Noble, R. A., Nunn, A. D., Bolland, J., Walton, S., Peirson, G., & Harvey, J. P. (2012). Flow requirements of non-salmonids. Fisheries Management and Ecology, 19(6), 548-556. https://doi.org/10.1111/fme.12017

Research into the relationships between non-salmonid fish population dynamics and discharge is in its infancy compared with salmonids, thus compromising the ability to manage flows in rivers and maintain ecological status. This study reviews the pote... Read More about Flow requirements of non-salmonids.

Teaching Writers' Commentaries (2012)
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Goodman, M. (2012). Teaching Writers' Commentaries

A consideration of the place of commentaries as assessed tasks in creative writing programmes, with model exemplar

‘Still finest wits are stilling Venus Rose’: Robert Southwell's ‘Optima Deo’, Venus and Adonis, and Tasso's canto della rosa (2012)
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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.

Queen Caroline’s pains and penalties: Silence and speech in the dramatic art of British women’s suffrage (2012)
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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.

"When despotism kept genius in chains": imagining Tasso's madness and imprisonment, 1748-1849 (2011)
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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.

"Feeling and sense beyond all seeming" : private lines, public relations and the performances of the LeFanu circle (2011)
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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)
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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)
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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 spatial supplement: landscape and perspective in W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn (2011)
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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.

'Open secrets': Masculine subjectivity and other men's bodies in some late twentieth-century British poetry (2011)
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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.

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

Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature (2010)
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Thomas, J. (2010). Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature. Yearbook of English Studies, 40(1/2), 246-272

The sculptural trope enjoyed a revival in later Victorian literature, especially the classical sculptural nude. These ancient figures retain their function as mediators between the gods and their human votaries for their Victorian admirers, but they... Read More about Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature.

Samuel Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso's Armida in England (2010)
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Lawrence, J. Samuel Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso's Armida in England. Renaissance Studies, 25(5), 648-665. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-4658.2010.00697.x

This essay argues that the earliest English work to offer a sustained poetic engagement with the figure of Armida, the celebrated pagan enchantress from Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1581), is Daniel’s The Complaint of Rosamond (1592). Unlike Spenser... Read More about Samuel Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso's Armida in England.

"Bring me that kiss" : incarnation and truth in William Morris’s The defence of Guenevere, and other poems (2010)
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Hanson, I. (2010). "Bring me that kiss" : incarnation and truth in William Morris’s The defence of Guenevere, and other poems. English, 59(227), 349-374. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efq023

William Morris’s first volume of poetry, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems (1858), performs acts of poetic incarnation and resurrection, giving fleshly life to characters long dead and speaking into being his own fictional creations, based on... Read More about "Bring me that kiss" : incarnation and truth in William Morris’s The defence of Guenevere, and other poems.