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Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (2012)
Book
Mottram, S., & Prescott, S. (2012). S. Prescott, & S. Mottram (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism. London: Routledge

Writing Wales explores representations of Wales in English and Welsh literatures written across a broad sweep of history, from the union of Wales with England in 1536 to the beginnings of its industrialization at the turn of the nineteenth century. T... Read More about Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism.

William Browne and the writing of early Stuart Wales (2012)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S. (2012). William Browne and the writing of early Stuart Wales. In S. Mottram, & S. Prescott (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (91-107). Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546131

A shared ethnic crisis has produced dramatically antithetical solutions, and whereas the myth-making of Pugh and Evans is in essence no more than an effort to salvage the myth-symbol complex of the Welsh past, Morgan Llwyd's work seeks to fashion tha... Read More about William Browne and the writing of early Stuart Wales.

Thomas Hardy and the visual arts (2012)
Book Chapter
(2012). Thomas Hardy and the visual arts. Thomas Hardy in context (436 - 448). Cambridge University Press

Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction (2012)
Book
Wynne, C. (2012). C. Wynne (Ed.). Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction. Abingdon, Oxon: The University of Hull

Though best known as the author of Dracula (1897) Bram Stoker had a successful career in the theatre. This collection brings together all Stoker’s theatrical reviews from Dublin’s Evening Mail, his published essays and interviews on the theatre, sele... Read More about Bram Stoker and the stage: reviews, reminiscences, essays and fiction.

Keidrych Rhys: The van pool: Collected poems (2012)
Book
Mundye, C. (2012). Keidrych Rhys: The van pool: Collected poems. Seren Books

This is a scholarly edition of the collected poems of Keidrych Rhys, the Anglo-Welsh modernist poet. It includes an Introduction by Charles Mundye of 8860 words and scholarly apparatus of 8,000 words.

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

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

The literary North (2012)
Book
(Ed.). (2012). The literary North. Palgrave

According to George Orwell, the North was 'a strange country'. In a grim, industrial landscape, its working-class inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world permanently caught in the piercing gaze of 1930s realism. Stereotypes of the North have been t... Read More about The literary North.

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

The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere (2012)
Book
Kennedy, D. (2012). The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Examining a wide range of ekphrastic poems, David Kennedy argues that contemporary British poets writing out of both mainstream and avant-garde traditions challenge established critical models of ekphrasis with work that is more complex than represen... Read More about The ekphrastic encounter in contemporary British poetry and elsewhere.

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

Introduction (2012)
Book Chapter
Mottram, S., & Prescott, S. (2012). Introduction. In S. Mottram, & S. Prescott (Eds.), Writing Wales, from the Renaissance to Romanticism (3-15). Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315546131

In Writing Wales we are concerned, not only to trace the evolution of Wales' written representation over the period from the Renaissance to Romanticism', but also to chart in these written representations the changing motivations of writers, poets, a... Read More about Introduction.

Democratisation (2012)
Book Chapter
Seoane, E., & Farrelly, M. (2012). Democratisation. The Oxford handbook of the history of English (392 - 401). Oxford University Press

"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.

Censorship (2011)
Book Chapter
Clare, J. (2011). Censorship. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare (276 - 294). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566105.013.0016

This article discusses the control and regulation of playhouses during Shakespeare's career; The Book of Sir Thomas More; and Jacobean censorship. Elizabethan censorship in the decades preceding and coinciding with Shakespeare's early career evolved... Read More about Censorship.