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Icons of desire : the classical statue in later Victorian literature (2010)
Journal Article
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.

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.

Henry V / William Shakespeare ; edited with a commentary by A.R. Humphreys ; revised and with an introduction by Ann Kaegi. (2010)
Book
Kaegi, A. (Ed.). (2010). Henry V / William Shakespeare ; edited with a commentary by A.R. Humphreys ; revised and with an introduction by Ann Kaegi. Penguin Random House

Summary:
Among the most well-loved of William Shakespeare's history plays, Henry V is the gripping conclusion to the story of young 'Prince Hal' begun in Henry IV, edited by A R Humphreys with an introduction by Ann Kaegi. 'We few, we happy few, we... Read More about Henry V / William Shakespeare ; edited with a commentary by A.R. Humphreys ; revised and with an introduction by Ann Kaegi..

Samuel Daniel's The Complaint of Rosamond and the arrival of Tasso's Armida in England (2010)
Journal Article
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.

Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V (2010)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2010). Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V. In P. Holland (Ed.), Shakespeare Survey 63 (102-113). The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol9780521769150.010

More than any other playwright of the period, Shakespeare dramatized English history and in so doing experimented with different ways of representing the past. Within as well as between the tetralogies of pre-Tudor history, spanning at least a decade... Read More about Medley History: The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth to Henry V.

Spenser and Italian Literature (2010)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, J. (2010). Spenser and Italian Literature. In R. A. McCabe (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser (602-619). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227365.013.0034

This article focuses on Spenser's relationship with Italian literature. Spenser's profound relationship with Italian literature is manifest from his earliest printed poetry, even if initially his engagement with it seems to have been mediated through... Read More about Spenser and Italian Literature.

Discourses of democracy in neighborhood governance (2010)
Journal Article
Farrelly, M., & Sullivan, H. (2010). Discourses of democracy in neighborhood governance. Critical Policy Studies, 4(3), 234 - 249. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2010.508920

This article is concerned with neighborhood governance reflecting a policy agenda which identifies the ‘neighborhood’ as a significant space for democratic renewal. But how is democracy understood and practiced? Many neighborhood policy programs are... Read More about Discourses of democracy in neighborhood governance.

"Bring me that kiss" : incarnation and truth in William Morris’s The defence of Guenevere, and other poems (2010)
Journal Article
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.

Democratic milieu: Analysing democratic practice in the new governance (2010)
Journal Article
Farrelly, M., & Skelcher, C. (2010). Democratic milieu: Analysing democratic practice in the new governance. Representation, 46(2), 139 - 150. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2010.485796

Understanding emerging democratic practices in the context of the wider, and changing, system of governance in which they operate poses problems for research, not least because broader concepts, such as political culture, focus on historical patterns... Read More about Democratic milieu: Analysing democratic practice in the new governance.

De Chirico's threads (2010)
Book
Rumens, C. (2010). De Chirico's threads. Seren Books

De Chirico’s Threads, the new collection of poems from Carol Rumens features an unusual centre-piece, a verse-play, fizzing with ideas and surrealist imagery, based on the life and work of the Italian painter Georges De Chirico, as well as forty page... Read More about De Chirico's threads.

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.