Browsing Department of English by Issue Date
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Testimonies of precognition and encounters with psychiatry in letters to J. B. Priestley.
(2014-12)Using letters sent to British playwright J. B. Priestley in 1963, this paper explores the intersection between patient-focused history of psychiatry and the history of parapsychology in everyday life. Priestley's study of ... -
"Looking all lost towards a Cook's guide for beauty”: the art of literature and the lessons of the guidebook in modernist writing
(Taylor and Francis, 2015)This article explores the impact of the guidebook, especially the Baedeker series, on modernist literary culture. It argues that the guidebook is a literary phenomenon in its own right and that, as such, it attracts special ... -
The psalms and the English Reformation
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Homelessness and the refugee: De-valorizing displacement in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea
(2015-07-24)© 2015 Taylor & Francis The use of postmodern discourses of movement to analyze literary works involving migration has contributed to a valorization of displacement, which tends to be seen as both inherently resistant and ... -
Punning in Punglish, sounding 'poreign': Daljit Nagra and the politics of language
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2015-10-01)This essay explores Daljit Nagra’s poetry (Look We Have Coming To Dover! (2007), and Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger-Toy Machine!!! (2011)) in the context of contemporary British language politics. It ... -
The Long Modernist Novel: An Introduction
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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 -
‘The Commune in Exile: Urban Insurrection and the Production of International Space
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Gender and the Domestication of Wireless Technology in 1920s Pulp Fiction
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Event
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-01-19)Via 19 key terms, the book takes stock of recent scholarship and demonstrates how analyses of particular historical phenomena have modified our understanding of crucial notions like archive, book, event, media, objects, ... -
Hubbub and satire
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From grief to leisure: "Lycidas" in the eighteenth century
(2016-03-01)© 2016 by University of Washington. Milton's elegy for Edward King was widely admired and imitated in the eighteenth century. These imitations tend to celebrate the poem as an ornamental, musical work while suppressing its ... -
Editorial
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Le Manuscrit Royal de la Suite de la Seconde Semaine de Du Bartas
(Droz, 2016-03-01)Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas a commencé à écrire une suite aux deux premiers Jours de La Seconde Semaine peu de mois après leur publication en avril 1584. En dépit de l’intérêt que les éditeurs ont manifesté pour ce qui ... -
'Prescott, Rachel (1765/6-1824)'
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Editorial
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Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals: Policy Report
(Creativeworks London, 2017)This report highlights the key policy implications of the AHRC-funded research and knowledge exchange project, 'Creative Hubs and Urban Development Goals: (UK/Brazil)' for the funding and design of creative hubs in the ...
