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Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War (2015)
Book
Woodward, G. (2015). Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198716853.001.0001

This book explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970. It argues that the war, as a unique interregnum in the history of Northern Ireland, challenged the entrenched political and soc... Read More about Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War.

‘“What shalt thou do when thou hast an english to make into Latin?” The Proverb Collection of Cambridge, St John’s College, MS F.26’ (2015)
Journal Article
Bellis, J., & Bridges, V. (2015). ‘“What shalt thou do when thou hast an english to make into Latin?” The Proverb Collection of Cambridge, St John’s College, MS F.26’. Studies in philology, 112(1), 68-92. https://doi.org/10.1353/sip.2015.0008

This article considers proverbs used as translation sentences, in the context of the teaching of Latin in the medieval schoolroom. Its enquiry focuses in particular on one folio of such latinitates, in Cambridge, St. John's College, MS F.26 (with fur... Read More about ‘“What shalt thou do when thou hast an english to make into Latin?” The Proverb Collection of Cambridge, St John’s College, MS F.26’.

Leaving the Garden: Re-visioning Eve in Poetry and Art (2015)
Journal Article
Green, M. (2015). Leaving the Garden: Re-visioning Eve in Poetry and Art. International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, 10(4), 33-52. https://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/cgp/v10i04/36434

With the Christian appropriation of the Hebrew creation story of Adam and Eve, eating the forbidden fruit assumed a momentous significance that had an enduring effect on the relationship between men and women, influencing ideas about human sexuality... Read More about Leaving the Garden: Re-visioning Eve in Poetry and Art.

The Poetics of Remoteness (2015)
Book Chapter
Botha, M. (2015). The Poetics of Remoteness. In C. Lemke, & J. Wawrzinek (Eds.), Weeds and viruses : ecopolitics and the demands of theory (21-48). Wissenschaflicher Verlag Trier

Beauty Rewrites Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury (2015)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2015). Beauty Rewrites Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury. In C. Saunders, J. Macnaughton, & D. Fuller (Eds.), The recovery of beauty : arts, culture, medicine (108-128). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741_7

The question, ‘what was Bloomsbury’, elicits two responses: a catalogue of the people, the place, the moment; but more compelling, and more elusive, the evocation of an ethos. Bloomsbury is seen to have rein-vented beauty and the beautiful soul. If t... Read More about Beauty Rewrites Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury.

Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages. (2015)
Book Chapter
Archibald, E. (2015). Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages. In C. Saunders, J. Macnaughton, & D. Fuller (Eds.), The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine (53-71). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741_4

‘Wine, sex and baths ruin our bodies, but they are the stuff of life,’ according to the tombstone of a Roman freedman at Pompeii.1 It is striking that baths are described as damaging to the body; we might have expected that they were considered an im... Read More about Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages..

Bioregional Biography and the Geography of Affect: Spatialized Somnambulance in Alice Oswald’s Sleepwalk on the Severn (2015)
Journal Article
Bristow, T. (2015). Bioregional Biography and the Geography of Affect: Spatialized Somnambulance in Alice Oswald’s Sleepwalk on the Severn. Australasian journal of ecocriticism and cultural ecology, 4, 1-21

At the centre of Oswald’s second book-length poem, Sleepwalk on the Severn (2009), lies a conflation of the feminine gendered moon and an elderly woman dressed in black, pictured against rainfall at night. Distinctions of kind and various senses of i... Read More about Bioregional Biography and the Geography of Affect: Spatialized Somnambulance in Alice Oswald’s Sleepwalk on the Severn.