School of English and Drama: Recent submissions
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Laura Moretti, Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth‐Century Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xvi + 416 pp. $40.00 / £34.00. ISBN 9780231197236 (pb).
(2021-03-11)This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Raymond, J. (2021), Moretti, Laura, Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth‐Century Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. xvi + 416 pp. ... -
Labor in Contemporary Shakespeare Performance
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An Anglo-Saxon World View? The Cotton mappa mundi reassessed
This article examines the sources, content, and function of the eleventh-century Cotton mappa mundi (also known as the “Tiberius” or “Anglo-Saxon” world map). It argues against the notion that the map represents a ... -
‘This spasm upon canvas’: George Eliot, Gustave Courbet and realist aesthetics
This article offers sustained consideration for the first time of George Eliot’s entanglement with mid-nineteenth-century French art. Taking realism’s transnational nature as its point of origin, this essay probes Eliot’s ... -
Traces and Routes: 1940s - 1970s
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)Background to evolution of Black and Asian literatures in Britain from 1940-1970, covering period prior to well-known era of migration following WW2 -
Wordsworth, Fox, and a Poet’s Public Spirit
Wordsworth’s major poetry—Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800, 1802) The Prelude [1805], and Poems, in Two Volumes (1807)—has a rich critical heritage of political readings. This essay concerns itself with a similar but different ... -
State of the Field: The History of Collecting
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Vallombrosa Visited, 1638–1851
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A 'Sector Deal' and a Creative Precariat: Shaping Creative Economy Policy in the UK since 2010
(Labex ICCA, University of Paris 13, 2020-10-21)This chapter analyses the development of policies for the creative economy in the UK over the past ten years. In doing so it seeks to foreground the diversity of these policies across different parts of the UK, as well the ... -
Double or Dual-Natured?: Consciousness and Race in Nella Larsen's Passing
(School of English and Drama – Queen Mary, University of London, 2020)