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A life 'so very different to what I expected': Miss Matty's Private Counternarratives in Cranford (2024)
Journal Article
Leblanc, S.-E. (2024). A life 'so very different to what I expected': Miss Matty's Private Counternarratives in Cranford. The Gaskell Journal, 38, 44-66

This article re-examines the inner life of Miss Matty in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford (1853).
It posits that, throughout the novel, Miss Matty constructs fictional counternarratives to her own real life, which act as protective fictions allowing her... Read More about A life 'so very different to what I expected': Miss Matty's Private Counternarratives in Cranford.

‘Poor Tom O’Bedlam’: Identifying the Subsistence Migrants of Early Modern England in Shakespeare’s King Lear (2024)
Journal Article
Wood, F. (2024). ‘Poor Tom O’Bedlam’: Identifying the Subsistence Migrants of Early Modern England in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Shakespeare, https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2024.2427584

In the early 1600s, English agriculture was punctuated by dearth, generated by the changes in climate and weather and exacerbated by poor resource management which affected the socio-economic circumstances of the country. This article identifies the... Read More about ‘Poor Tom O’Bedlam’: Identifying the Subsistence Migrants of Early Modern England in Shakespeare’s King Lear.

Getting to the Point: Walking and feeling on the shorelines of Spurn (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horkan, T. (2024, March). Getting to the Point: Walking and feeling on the shorelines of Spurn. Paper presented at ACLA 2024 Annual Conference (American Comparative Literature Association), Palais des congrès de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Spurn is a narrow sandy spit on the Holderness coast of East Yorkshire, UK, which juts out into the mouth of the Humber Estuary, and is a place of rich ecological and historical interest. Because of its position at the boundary of river and sea, Spur... Read More about Getting to the Point: Walking and feeling on the shorelines of Spurn.

Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull (2024)
Journal Article
McDonagh, B., Worthen, H., Mottram, S., & Buxton-Hill, S. (2024). Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull. Environment and History, 30(4), 585-614. https://doi.org/10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903577

This paper explores Hull's histories of living with water and flood in the period between the foundation of the town in the 1260s and c. 1700, examining how the inhabitants, Corporation and Commissioners of Sewers managed and governed water in order... Read More about Living with water and flood in medieval and early modern Hull.

Writing remoteness: Language and place-making at Spurn (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horkan, T. (2023, June). Writing remoteness: Language and place-making at Spurn. Paper presented at Energy and Environment Institute Summer Conference 2023, University of Hull

What makes a ‘remote place’ remote? Using the example of Spurn on the Holderness coast, this flash talk will contend that ‘remoteness’ is a concept produced by the discursive juxtaposition of closeness and distance, the ‘here’ and ‘there’, both in sp... Read More about Writing remoteness: Language and place-making at Spurn.