School of English and Drama: Recent submissions
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The Housing Crisis, Art, and Performance
The work I look at here responds particularly to being part of a new class known as Generation Rent. Facing what critic Lauren Berlant has influentially termed the ‘cruel optimism’ of desiring something which actually ... -
The Fringe: The Rise and Fall of Radical Alternative Theatre
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)The various names given to the new theatre movement that emerged in the 1960s to challenge both the West End and the new subsidised theatre sector include ‘fringe’, ‘alternative’, and ‘underground’; each offers different ... -
International Theatre Festivals in the UK: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a Model Neo-liberal Market
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-06-30)This chapter focuses on the UK’s biggest and most internationally influential festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (EFF), analyzing its benefits and risks, particularly for its artists and especially as an unregulated ... -
Subsidised Theatre: Strength, Elitism, Metropolitanism, Racism
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)This chapter examines the newly expanded and transformed theatre ecology enabled by the post-war rise of central government subsidy to the arts. It explores subsidy’s ambitions, achievements, and benefits, but also its ... -
Introduction
(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03-21)British theatre’s post-war cultural impact would be hard to deny, having produced generations of actors, writers, directors, and designers who have populated the world’s stages and screens. This vitality has often been ... -
In Service to Capital: Theatre and Marxist Cultural Theory
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-02-28)This book shows the importance of Marxist approaches to literature that reach beyond simply demonstrating the revolutionary potential or the political consciousness of a 19th-century-style industrial working class. -
Marxist Keywords for Performance
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Theatrical Proletation
(Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2021-01-14)A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. -
Pedagogies of Defiance
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-11-15)Beginning from Paulo Freire's insistence that ‘Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom,' we can begin to unpack the political function of Higher Education in the UK. This essay uses ... -
What’s love got to do with it? Marriage and the security state
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-07-06)This article explores how marriage animates the racial logic of the security state. While the pursuit of romantic love culminating in a wedding is considered to be a universal good, arranged marriages are viewed as a ... -
The biosocial genome?
(Springer, 2017-09-20) -
James Petiver [The Great Collectors and Cataloguers]
(2020)This lavishly illustrated book reveals the lives of the people who assembled the greatest botanical collection of the Early Modern period, with stories of adventure and discovery across every continent. -
James Cuninghame [Collectors in the Field: Asia and the Pacific]
(2020)This lavishly illustrated book reveals the lives of the people who assembled the greatest botanical collection of the Early Modern period, with stories of adventure and discovery across every continent. -
Roots to Seeds
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Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver’s Museum
(Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2024-03-12)