All Outputs (112)

Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel and the Art of Speed. (2015)
Book Chapter
Garratt, P. (2015). Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel and the Art of Speed. In B. Murray, & M. Henes (Eds.), Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form, 1760-1900 (194-212). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137543394_10

Towards the end of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, Tom Tulliver’s uncle Mr Deane observes that the defining quality of modern life is its speed. Life, he tells Tom, ‘goes on at a smarter pace’ than a generation before, accelerated by the effect... Read More about Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel and the Art of Speed..

European Avant-Garde Coteries and the Modernist Magazine (2015)
Journal Article
Harding, J. (2015). European Avant-Garde Coteries and the Modernist Magazine. Modernism/modernity, 22(4), 811-820. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2015.0063

Modernism is synonymous with cosmopolitanism. In their groundbreaking collection of essays, Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane argued: “Conspicuous in the age of Modernism is an unprecedented acceleration in the intellectual traffic between nations... Read More about European Avant-Garde Coteries and the Modernist Magazine.

Seamus Heaney and the Making of Sweeney Astray (2015)
Journal Article
Regan, S. (2015). Seamus Heaney and the Making of Sweeney Astray. Hungarian journal of English and American studies, 21(2), 317-339

A Kind of Loving: Hans Castorp as Model Critic (2015)
Book Chapter
Fuller, D. (2015). A Kind of Loving: Hans Castorp as Model Critic. In T. Doering, & E. Fernie (Eds.), Thomas Mann and Shakespeare: Something Rich and Strange (207-228). Bloomsbury

Men at Home, Men and Home in Two Anglophone Novels by Indian Women Writers (2015)
Journal Article
Mirza, M. (2015). Men at Home, Men and Home in Two Anglophone Novels by Indian Women Writers. Gender, Place and Culture, 23(7), 1061-1070. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2015.1090409

Postcolonial Indian women novelists writing in English have been deeply concerned with addressing the ways in which ‘home’ in patriarchal societies is an ambiguous space, characterized by unequal gender relationships that make it a terrain rife with... Read More about Men at Home, Men and Home in Two Anglophone Novels by Indian Women Writers.

Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice (2015)
Book
Brandsma, F., Larrington, C., & Saunders, C. (Eds.). (2015). Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice. D.S.Brewer

Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotion in the audiences which... Read More about Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice.

Imagining Postnuclear Times (2015)
Journal Article
Grausam, D. (2015). Imagining Postnuclear Times. Common Knowledge, 21(3), 451-463. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-3130978

This essay compares “expert” attempts, commissioned by the US government, to imagine future nuclear risk with the attempt made by Lydia Millet in her novel Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005). During the Cold War, nuclear attack was conceptualized prima... Read More about Imagining Postnuclear Times.

Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. (2015)
Book
Clark, T. (2015). Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. Bloomsbury

The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical... Read More about Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept..

Of Schooners and Sagamen: Anglo-Icelandic tourism in the Nineteenth Century (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spray, T., Found, J., Newbery, M., & Salaad, A. (2015). Of Schooners and Sagamen: Anglo-Icelandic tourism in the Nineteenth Century. In Sea lines of communication : construction (161-174)

Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807–1815 (2015)
Book
Valladares, S. (2015). Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807–1815. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315610542

W.B. Yeats and World Literature: the subject of poetry (2015)
Book
Sheils, B. (2015). W.B. Yeats and World Literature: the subject of poetry. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547824

Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats’s work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how reading Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the relationship between the extensive map of world literary... Read More about W.B. Yeats and World Literature: the subject of poetry.

Communication Technology and Narrative: Letters, Instant Messaging, and Mobile Phones in Three Romantic Novels (2015)
Journal Article
Brown, A. (in press). Communication Technology and Narrative: Letters, Instant Messaging, and Mobile Phones in Three Romantic Novels. Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 36(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2879838

Climate Change, Scale, and Literary Criticism: A Conversation (2015)
Journal Article
Clarke, M. T., Halpern, F., & Clark, T. Climate Change, Scale, and Literary Criticism: A Conversation. ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 46(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2015.0025

This conversation among the editors of ARIEL and Timothy Clark addresses his 2012 essay, “Derangements of Scale,” published in Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change. In his essay, Clark suggests that scale effects play an important role... Read More about Climate Change, Scale, and Literary Criticism: A Conversation.

The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine (2015)
Book
Saunders, C., Macnaughton, J., & Fuller, D. (Eds.). (2015). The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.

Writing for 'The New Yorker': Essays on an American Periodical. (2015)
Journal Article
Harding, J. (2016). Writing for 'The New Yorker': Essays on an American Periodical. The Review of English Studies, 67(278), 200-202. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgv065

The Novel as Therapy: Ministrations of Voice in an Age of Risk (2015)
Journal Article
Waugh, P. (2015). The Novel as Therapy: Ministrations of Voice in an Age of Risk. Journal of the British Academy, 3, 35-68. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/003.035

Examining relations between 'therapy culture' and the 'risk society', this essay suggests that the novel developed to offer a powerful workout for the kinds of socio-cognitive capacities and gratifications required by the complex and 'emergent' cultu... Read More about The Novel as Therapy: Ministrations of Voice in an Age of Risk.

Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise (2015)
Journal Article
Callard, F., Fitzgerald, D., & Woods, A. (2015). Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise. Palgrave communications, 1, https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2015.19

Interdisciplinarity is often framed as an unquestioned good within and beyond the academy, one to be encouraged by funders and research institutions alike. And yet there is little research on how interdisciplinary projects actually work—and do not wo... Read More about Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise.

Cultures in Confrontation in BL MS Harley 978 (2015)
Book Chapter
Cartlidge, N. (2015). Cultures in Confrontation in BL MS Harley 978. In M. Carruthers, & C. Steer (Eds.), Language in Medieval Britain: Networks and Exchanges: Proceedings of the 2013 Harlaxton Symposium (181-200). Shaun Tyas

The Felicity of Falling: Fifty Shades of Grey and the Feminine Art of Sinking (2015)
Journal Article
Booth, N. (2015). The Felicity of Falling: Fifty Shades of Grey and the Feminine Art of Sinking. Women: A Cultural Review, 26(1-2), 22-39

The Charismatic Adolescent in Rudyard Kipling's Kim (2015)
Journal Article
McCloskey, R. (2015). The Charismatic Adolescent in Rudyard Kipling's Kim. International Research in Children's Literature, 8(1), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2015.0150

This article uses Max Weber's model of charismatic authority to analyse the role of the adolescent protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Kim's charisma means that the radical instability he represents is highly appealing to the reader: Kim plays the... Read More about The Charismatic Adolescent in Rudyard Kipling's Kim.