All Outputs (23)

Thomas Hardy and Desire (2013)
Book
Thomas, J. (2013). Thomas Hardy and Desire. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305060

Thomas Hardy and Desire employs a post-Lacanian approach to demonstrate the centrality of desire to Hardy's aesthetic project. Yearning, disappointment, frustration and loss determine the relationship of his characters and poetic personae to the worl... Read More about Thomas Hardy and Desire.

A Victorian Response to a Fifteenth-Century Incunabulum: The 'Boy Bishop' Sermon and How it was First Edited (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Mara, V. (2013). A Victorian Response to a Fifteenth-Century Incunabulum: The 'Boy Bishop' Sermon and How it was First Edited. In M. W. Drive, & V. O’Mara (Eds.), Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England (351–390). Turnhout: Brepols

The Late Medieval English Nun and her Scribal Activity: A Complicated Quest (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Mara, V. (2013). The Late Medieval English Nun and her Scribal Activity: A Complicated Quest. In V. Blanton, V. O’Mara, & P. Stoop (Eds.), Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue (69 - 93). Turnhout: Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC.1.101520

The Last Judgement in Medieval English Prose Sermons: An Overview (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Mara, V. (2013). The Last Judgement in Medieval English Prose Sermons: An Overview. In T. Mertens, M. Sherwood-Smith, M. Mecklenburg, & H. Schiewer (Eds.), The last judgement in medieval preaching (19 - 43). Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SERMO.EB.1.100504

Saint Birgitta of Sweden’s Life in a Middle English Context (2013)
Conference Proceeding
O'Mara, V. (2013). Saint Birgitta of Sweden’s Life in a Middle English Context. In C. Gejrot, M. Åkestam, & R. Andersson (Eds.), The Birgittine Experience: Papers from the Birgitta Conference in Stockholm 2011 (54-71)

Outside the imaginary museum : mythology and representation in the poetry of Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rhys (2013)
Journal Article
Mundye, C. (2013). Outside the imaginary museum : mythology and representation in the poetry of Lynette Roberts and Keidrych Rhys. PN review, 40(2), 23-28, 79

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'.

'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.

Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell (2013)
Book
Driver, M. W., & O’Mara, V. (Eds.). (2013). Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell. Turnhout: Brepols

Nuns' literacies in medieval Europe: the Hull dialogue (2013)
Book
Blanton, V., O’Mara, V., & Stoop, P. (Eds.). (2013). Nuns' literacies in medieval Europe: the Hull dialogue. Brepols

Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition (2013)
Book
Perry, S. (2013). Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199687336.001.0001

For many decades, R.S. Thomas has been portrayed according to terms that he himself helped to define. Drawing on the poet's status as a passionate defender of the Welsh nation, scholars have followed his lead in emphasising the Welsh credentials and... Read More about Chameleon poet: R.S. Thomas and the literary tradition.

Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale (2013)
Book
Kennedy, D. G., & Kennedy, C. (2013). Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

The introduction to the recent anthology Infinite Difference: Other poetries by UK women poets noted ‘the still dismissive and gendered critical language often used to describe women's poetry'. This is certainly true in the case of British women's ex... Read More about Women's experimental poetry in Britain 1970-2010: body, time and locale.

‘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.

"Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier (2013)
Book Chapter
Sanders, V. (2013). "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier. In K. Hadjiafxendi, & T. Zakreski (Eds.), Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century. Artistry and Industry in Britain (227-242). Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574561

The chapter considers the career of Thomas Henry Huxley's artist daughter Marian Collier, and what it tells us about the 'invisibility' of Victorian women artists: some shared themes of which are reflected in Ella Hepworth Dixons  1894 novel, 'The St... Read More about "Mady's tightrope walk": The Career of Marian Huxley Collier.

Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns (2013)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2013). Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns. In W. Maley, & R. Loughnane (Eds.), Celtic Shakespeare : The Bard and the Borderers (169-183). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571096-11

Heroism is a key characteristic of Cymbeline’s Britons, and it played a crucial role also in the construction of Britain in the period of the play’s composition, although it is an ethos we tend today to associate more with Henry Frederick than with h... Read More about Warriors and ruins: Cymbeline, heroism and the union of crowns.

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.

'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson (2013)
Book Chapter
Weston, D. (2013). 'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson. In N. Alexander, & D. Cooper (Eds.), Poetry & geography: Space & place in post-war poetry (105-119). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846318641.003.0008

Ciaran Carson is increasingly recognised as a poet of place, of the city, and specifically of Belfast. However, Carson's work is also permeated by the Northern Irish Troubles in thoroughgoing ways. This essay elucidates the ways in which his poetry o... Read More about 'I know this labyrinth so well': narrative mappings in the poetry of Ciaran Carson.

William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890 (2013)
Book
Hanson, I. (2013). William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890. London: Anthem Press

William Morris and the Uses of Violence, 1856–1890 offers a new reading of Morris’s work, foregrounding his commitment to the idea of transformative violence. Hanson argues, contrary to prevailing critical opinion, that Morris’s work demonstrates an... Read More about William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890.