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'Ageing, vulnerable and unstable: My Week with Marilyn and popular perceptions of Vivien Leigh'
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-05-01)
This article will argue that My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis, 2011), despite its central focus on Marilyn Monroe, offers important peripheral insights into the way in which Vivien Leigh is popularly perceived as neurotic ...
Life-lines: The writing of Bart Moore-Gilbert’s memoir The Setting Sun (2014)
(Informa UK Limited, 2018-01-02)
The Persistence of Colonial Constitutionalism in British Overseas Territories
(2019)
This article argues that despite the UK Government’s exaltations of self-determination of its Overseas Territories, provisions of colonial governance persist in their constitutions. Further, it posits that such illustrations ...
Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit
(2018-06-01)
© 2017, The Author(s) 2017. The proliferation of images of “oppressed” and “downtrodden” Muslim women circulating via media discourses and popular memoirs leading up to and after 9/11 has led a number of British Muslim ...
“Cavell, Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, and Skepticism: Othello vs. Cymbeline"
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-02)
An Exploration of Familiarisation and Defamiliarisation in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock, Johnathon Swift's ‘The Lady's Dressing Room’, and Eliza Haywood's Fantomina
(School of English and Drama – Queen Mary, University of London, 2020)
Double or Dual-Natured?: Consciousness and Race in Nella Larsen's Passing
(School of English and Drama – Queen Mary, University of London, 2020)
Domestic Bloomsbury
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-05)
Bloomsbury's deconstruction of standard domestic routine, as explored by Morag Shiach, was meant to support a way of life in which creativity was paramount. The home was reimagined as a place to fidn a room of one's own ...
'Pleasure too often Repeated': Aldous Huxley's Modernity
(Edinburgh Univeristy Press, 2013)
Aldous Huxley’s Modernity Morag Shiach In an essay published in 1923, Aldous Huxley suggested that ‘of all the various poisons which modern civilization, by a process of auto- intoxication, brews quietly up within its own ...