Outputs (11)

Religious Faith, Class Politics, and Equitable Progress: James Woodhouse and Elizabeth Montagu’s Contending Visions of Improvement (2024)
Book Chapter
Bridgen, A., & Van Hagen, S. (in press). Religious Faith, Class Politics, and Equitable Progress: James Woodhouse and Elizabeth Montagu’s Contending Visions of Improvement. In J. Orchard, & M. Ellis (Eds.), Bluestockings and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Boydell & Brewer

John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification (2024)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2024). John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification. In M. Demson, & R. Hewitt (Eds.), Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions (238-257). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

This paper offers a revised overview of the now distortedly over-familiar topic of John Clare and enclosure, qualifying the emerging critical truism that this human injustice was also a fierce assault on biodiversity, one which can be immediately ass... Read More about John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification.

The British Council, Writers and their Work and English Literature as Cultural Diplomacy (2024)
Book Chapter
Smith, J. (in press). The British Council, Writers and their Work and English Literature as Cultural Diplomacy. In B. Lopez, J. Smith, & G. Woodward (Eds.), British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond. Bloomsbury

'Introduction: Literature, Propaganda and the Intellectual' (2024)
Book Chapter
Smith, J., Lopez, B., & Woodward, G. (2024). 'Introduction: Literature, Propaganda and the Intellectual'. In J. Smith, B. Lopez, & G. Woodward (Eds.), British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond. Bloomsbury

On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique (2024)
Book Chapter
Sheils, B. (in press). On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique. In C. I. Armstrong, A. Paterson, & T. Walker (Eds.), W.B. Yeats and the Arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

In mid-1936, while writing ‘Lapis Lazuli’, W. B. Yeats was finalising his controversial selections for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936). He was also pronouncing upon a significant generational trend towards ‘difficult’ poetry. As he suggested i... Read More about On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique.

‘The Disabled Body as Performance: Disabled Performers in the Records of Early English Drama’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Chambers, M. (2024). ‘The Disabled Body as Performance: Disabled Performers in the Records of Early English Drama’. In M. Twycross, S. Carpenter, E. Dutton, & G. Kipling (Eds.), Medieval English Theatre 45 (102-125). Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11589157.9

The saints’ healing of an infirmed limb or organ is a recurrent theme in hagiographic literature—particularly from the earlier medieval period. In Ælfric’s account of the life of St. Swithin of Winchester, for instance, he reports that the saint’s sh... Read More about ‘The Disabled Body as Performance: Disabled Performers in the Records of Early English Drama’.

Eco-Deconstruction, or (Post)Humanism of the Other (Nonhuman) (2024)
Book Chapter
Lynes, P. (2024). Eco-Deconstruction, or (Post)Humanism of the Other (Nonhuman). In C. Tan, & İ. Serdar Altaç (Eds.), Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought. Lexington Books

Experimental Medievalism: The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems (1858) (2024)
Book Chapter
Dubois, M. (2024). Experimental Medievalism: The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems (1858). In M. Waithe (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to William Morris (73-84). Cambridge University Press

"Steering here at my keeling trade": W. S. Graham and the Poetry of the Keel' (2024)
Book Chapter
Garrington, A. (2024). "Steering here at my keeling trade": W. S. Graham and the Poetry of the Keel'. In E. Allen (Ed.), Reading W. S. Graham. Edinburgh University Press

Literature in Collaboration: The Work of Literature in the Critical Medical Humanities (2024)
Book Chapter
Woods, A., & Rákóczi, J. (2024). Literature in Collaboration: The Work of Literature in the Critical Medical Humanities. In A. M. Elsner, & M. Pietrzak-Franger (Eds.), Literature and Medicine (357-374). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009300070.025

What might the medical humanities be capable of doing?’ asked Viney, Callard, and Woods in their 2015 call for a critical medical humanities. This chapter endeavours to answer that question by investigating how ‘the literary’ is mobilized in health-f... Read More about Literature in Collaboration: The Work of Literature in the Critical Medical Humanities.