Tactics, learning and the civil-military interface in Europe, 1870 – 1875 (2024)
Book Chapter
Bennett, M. (2024). Tactics, learning and the civil-military interface in Europe, 1870 – 1875. In K. Varley (Ed.), The Franco-Prussian War: Turning-Points in European Experiences and Perceptions of Military Conflict. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003336792-3

Almost as striking as the totality of German victory in the Franco-Prussian War is the paucity of contemporary observers who anticipated the result – particularly with an earlier, similarly stunning Prussian victory over Austria to judge by. Confusio... Read More about Tactics, learning and the civil-military interface in Europe, 1870 – 1875.

The Display of Heraldry: The Heraldic Imagination in Arts and Culture (2020)
Book
Robertson, F., & Lindfield, P. N. (Eds.). (2020). The Display of Heraldry: The Heraldic Imagination in Arts and Culture. The Heraldry Society

Allegories of the Heart (2018)
Journal Article
Robertson, F. (2018). Allegories of the Heart. Studies in Scottish literature, 44(2), 133-141

"Allegories of the Heart" uses allegory (or "telling otherwise") as a means of investigating Scott’s presence in literary works which do not specifically adapt or rework his texts, arguing that this is an underexplored area of imaginative and figurat... Read More about Allegories of the Heart.

Transatlantic Engagements (2018)
Book Chapter
Robertson, F. (2018). Transatlantic Engagements. In D. Duff (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of British Romanticism (723-738). Oxford University Press

Music in body and imagination (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, H. (2018). Music in body and imagination. In Y. Kim, & S. Gilman (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of music and the body. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190636234.013.12

Music is widely thought to have therapeutic possibilities. The predominant attempts to understand music-as-therapy focus on “how it works.”. This readily leads to reductionist accounts that appear to leave out an understanding of musical experience—a... Read More about Music in body and imagination.

Gothic Scott. (2017)
Book Chapter
Robertson, F. (2017). Gothic Scott. In C. Davison, & M. Germanà (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Gothic (102-114). Edinburgh University Press

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
Evans, H., & Burt, T. (2016). Introduction. In H. Evans, & T. Burt (Eds.), The collegiate way : university education in a collegiate context (xi-xvi). Sense Publishers

Epilogue (2016)
Book Chapter
Burt, T., & Evans, H. (2016). Epilogue. In H. Evans, & T. Burt (Eds.), The collegiate way : university education in a collegiate context (161-165). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-681-1_14

Establishing and maintaining colleges needs no justification to those who have experience of them – but all who work within collegiate systems are familiar with the need to be able to articulate their benefits, and to show how these justify the addit... Read More about Epilogue.

Building characters, sharpening minds: the values and virtues of the collegiate way (2016)
Book Chapter
Burt, T., & Evans, H. (2016). Building characters, sharpening minds: the values and virtues of the collegiate way. In H. Evans, & T. Burt (Eds.), The collegiate way : university education in a collegiate context (75-92). Sense Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-681-1_7

Last weekend, 11 years on from graduation, I returned to Durham for a friend’s bachelor’s party. Three of the group present, including the ‘stag’ himself, had been students at Hatfield and there was a natural draw to stay in the college. As you can i... Read More about Building characters, sharpening minds: the values and virtues of the collegiate way.

Medical Humanities and the Place of Wonder (2016)
Book Chapter
Evans, H. (2016). Medical Humanities and the Place of Wonder. In A. Whitehead, & A. Woods (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities (339-355). Edinburgh University Press

It will be the argument of this chapter that, among the critiques that could be thought to contribute to a critical medical humanities, at least one may turn out to bear upon an important – but generally tacit – presumption in mainstream medical huma... Read More about Medical Humanities and the Place of Wonder.

Medicine, the body and an invitation to wonder (2016)
Journal Article
Evans, H. (2016). Medicine, the body and an invitation to wonder. Medical Humanities, 42(2), 97-102. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2015-010826

There is, I think, a resonance between being a patient and having a greater sense of wonder at things in the world around us: a sense of wonder at things that become, briefly and intermittently, intensely and newly present. As with experiences of art... Read More about Medicine, the body and an invitation to wonder.

Introduction: Speaking of Arms (2016)
Book Chapter
Robertson, F., & Lindfield, P. N. (2016). Introduction: Speaking of Arms. In F. Robertson, & P. N. Lindfield (Eds.), Semy-de-Lys : speaking of arms, 1400-2016 (1-6). Emblems and Enigma: The Heraldic Imagination

Walter Scott and the Restoration of Europe (2015)
Journal Article
Robertson, F. (2015). Walter Scott and the Restoration of Europe. The ESSE Messenger, 24(1), 46-57

Wonder and the patient (2014)
Journal Article
Evans, H. (2015). Wonder and the patient. Journal of Medical Humanities, 36(1), 47-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-014-9320-6

Is it possible to distinguish, as sociologist Arthur Frank proposes, an ‘ideal of wonder’ within which ill persons could recover some of their former sense of life and flourishing, even within the constraints of ill-health? Beyond this, are there mor... Read More about Wonder and the patient.

Historical Fiction and the Fractured Atlantic (2014)
Book Chapter
Robertson, F. (2014). Historical Fiction and the Fractured Atlantic. In P. Fermanis, & J. Regan (Eds.), Rethinking British romantic history, 1770-1845 (246-270). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199687084.003.0011

Walter Scott and the American Historical Novel (2014)
Book Chapter
Robertson, F. (2014). Walter Scott and the American Historical Novel. In J. G. Kennedy, & L. Person (Eds.), The American novel to 1870 (107-123). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aosobl/9780195385359.003.0006

The Uncanny Stephen Crane. (2013)
Other
Robertson, F., & Mellors, A. (2013). The Uncanny Stephen Crane

Open futures, human finitude (2013)
Book Chapter
Evans, M. (2013). Open futures, human finitude. In J. Gordon, J. MacNaughton, & C. Rudebeck (Eds.), Medical humanities companion : prognosis (105-120). Radcliffe Publishing

‘Looking forward’ is an ambiguous state in which to find oneself, as ambiguous as that future reality of which the looking-forward is a presentiment. Anticipation can be eager and excited (cats are said to enjoy the prospect of food as much as the fo... Read More about Open futures, human finitude.

Wonderful treatment (2013)
Book Chapter
Evans, M. (2013). Wonderful treatment. In P. Louhiala, I. Heath, & J. Saunders (Eds.), Medical humanities companion : treatment (17-32). Radcliffe Publishing

A friend of mine once had the misfortune to suffer acute appendicitis and be admitted to hospital for emergency surgery. The operation was uneventful and wholly successful, my friend recovered in a manner and at a rate that was typical for his age (h... Read More about Wonderful treatment.

Disfigurement and Disability: Walter Scott’s Bodies (2013)
Journal Article
Robertson, F. (2013). Disfigurement and Disability: Walter Scott’s Bodies

This essay considers conflicts of corporeality in Scott’s works, critical reception, and cultural status, drawing on recent scholarship on the physical in the Romantic Period and on considerations of disability in modern and contemporary poetics. It... Read More about Disfigurement and Disability: Walter Scott’s Bodies.