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Depravity, abuse and homoerotic desire in Billy Budd and the 'Prussian officer' (2017)
Journal Article
Jones, B. (in press). Depravity, abuse and homoerotic desire in Billy Budd and the 'Prussian officer'. Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, 4(2), 47-72

In their resonant and evocative stories – Billy Budd, Sailor and ‘The Prussian Officer’ – Herman Melville and D. H. Lawrence adopt military settings for a personal drama. In both tales, two men come into close and dangerous proximity, resulting ultim... Read More about Depravity, abuse and homoerotic desire in Billy Budd and the 'Prussian officer'.

A Syon Scribe Revealed by Her Signature: Mary Nevel and Her Manuscripts (2017)
Journal Article
O'Mara, V. (2017). A Syon Scribe Revealed by Her Signature: Mary Nevel and Her Manuscripts. Konferenser / Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien, 93, Continuity and change: Papers from the Birgitta Conference at Dartington 2015, editors Elin Andersson, Claes Gejrot, E. A. Jones, and Mia Åkestam. ISBN: 978-91-7402-449-4, 283-308

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?.

Joseph Skipsey, the 'peasant poet', and an unpublished letter from W. B. Yeats (2016)
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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 Joseph Skipsey, the 'peasant poet', and an unpublished letter from W. B. Yeats.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This article examines an unpublished letter from Yeats to the ‘pitman-poet’ Joseph Skipsey, which gives new insight into the early career of Yeats and a deeper understanding of the possibilities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 Read More about Joseph Skipsey, the 'peasant poet', and an unpublished letter from W. B. Yeats.

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).

'Under a shower of bird-notes': R. S. Thomas's elegiac poems for Elsi (2014)
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Kennedy, D. (2014). 'Under a shower of bird-notes': R. S. Thomas's elegiac poems for Elsi. English, 63(243), 296-312. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efu018

It has been customary to see elegies by male poets as exceptional rather than typical poems. W. H. Auden wrote that ‘Poets seem to be more generally successful at writing elegies than at any other literary genre’. Peter Sacks reads Milton’s ‘Lycidas’... Read More about 'Under a shower of bird-notes': R. S. Thomas's elegiac poems for Elsi.

'He alone on this isotonic plain' : Robert Graves, Keidrych Rhys, Lynette Roberts, and the situation of the poet in war (2013)
Journal Article
Mundye, C. (2013). 'He alone on this isotonic plain' : Robert Graves, Keidrych Rhys, Lynette Roberts, and the situation of the poet in war. Gravesiana, 3(4), 703-729

The article examines aspects of Robert Graves’s creative and personal relationship with the Anglo-Welsh modernist poets Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rhys. Roberts and Rhys met in late 1930s bohemian London literary circles, and were married, with Dyl... Read More about 'He alone on this isotonic plain' : Robert Graves, Keidrych Rhys, Lynette Roberts, and the situation of the poet in war.

D.H. Lawrence and the 'Insidious mastery of song' (2013)
Journal Article
Jones, B. (2013). D.H. Lawrence and the 'Insidious mastery of song'. D. H. Lawrence studies, 20(2), 155-175

This article initially considers possible approaches to the analysis of musical influences on Lawrence and his literary work. The unique method adopted in this particular study is then highlighted: it involves a "practical" or analytical approach to... Read More about D.H. Lawrence and the 'Insidious mastery of song'.

‘O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus (2013)
Journal Article
Meek, R. (2013). ‘O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus. Shakespeare survey, 66, 287 - 297. https://doi.org/10.1017/SSO9781107300699.021

Various critics have considered Titus Andronicus in relation to questions of language, grief, and violence. In this paper I want to explore a more specific aspect of the play's interest in the passions: its preoccupation with the concept of sympathy.... Read More about ‘O, what a sympathy of woe is this': passionate sympathy in Titus Andronicus.

Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World (2013)
Journal Article
Arnold, M. (2013). Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World. Journal of the North Atlantic, Special volume 4, 199-206. https://doi.org/10.3721/037.004.sp404

This essay looks at George Mackay Brown's novel of 1992, Vinland, in the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century “foundation myth” literature inspired by the Viking discovery of North America as originally recounted in medieval Icelandic sagas.... Read More about Imagining Vínland : George Mackay Brown and the literature of the New World.

Lessons from cruising (2013)
Journal Article
Goodman, M. (2013). Lessons from cruising. Warwick Review, 7(3), 103-124

Nature vs naturalist : paths diverging and converging in Edmund Gosse's Father and son (2013)
Journal Article
Goodman, M. (2014). Nature vs naturalist : paths diverging and converging in Edmund Gosse's Father and son. Life Writing, 11(1), 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2013.838728

I examine the impulses which drove Edmund Gosse to follow the formal biography of his father with Father and Son. Before looking for 'gay sensibility' in the text, I consider how scientific discourse in the late 19th century opened an understanding o... Read More about Nature vs naturalist : paths diverging and converging in Edmund Gosse's Father and son.

'What say the citizens?' in Shakespeare's Richard III? (2013)
Journal Article
Kaegi, A. (2013). 'What say the citizens?' in Shakespeare's Richard III?. Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2, 91-116. https://doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-2

Shakespeare's residency in London coincided with a period in which the City underwent unprecedented demographic growth and commercial expansion. By the 1590s two thirds to three quarters of the adult males resident in the City were citizens, at the t... Read More about 'What say the citizens?' in Shakespeare's Richard III?.

Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan (2013)
Journal Article
Fitzer, A. M. (2013). Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan. Women's Writing, 20(1), 64-81. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2013.754258

This article adopts a literal and metaphorical conceptualization of progeny to explore influence in relation to the works of the novelist and dramatist Frances Sheridan (1724-66) and her youngest daughter Elizabeth Sheridan, afterwards LeFanu (1758-1... Read More about Revealing influence: the forgotten daughters of Frances Sheridan.