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"Act[ing] Riotously": Theatre and Performance in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica (2021)
Journal Article
Valladares, S. (2022). "Act[ing] Riotously": Theatre and Performance in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica. The Review of English Studies, 73(309), 321-343. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgab040

Theatrical culture in early nineteenth-century Jamaica attests to tense relationships between tradition and innovation, acceptance and resistance. The early nineteenth century has not, however, received much in-depth treatment by historians of the Ja... Read More about "Act[ing] Riotously": Theatre and Performance in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica.

Afro-Creole Revelry and Rebellion on the British Stage: Jonkanoo in Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack (1800) (2018)
Journal Article
Valladares, S. (2019). Afro-Creole Revelry and Rebellion on the British Stage: Jonkanoo in Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack (1800). The Review of English Studies, 70(294), 291-311. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgy093

Scholarship on John Fawcett and Samuel Arnold’s Obi; or Three-Fingered Jack (Haymarket, 1800) has largely focused on how the pantomime (and its later melodrama adaptation by William Murray) were performed and received relative to maturing debates abo... Read More about Afro-Creole Revelry and Rebellion on the British Stage: Jonkanoo in Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack (1800).

‘“For the sake of illustrating principles”: Wordsworth, the Convention of Cintra, and Satirical Prints’ (2013)
Journal Article
Valladares, S. (2013). ‘“For the sake of illustrating principles”: Wordsworth, the Convention of Cintra, and Satirical Prints’. European Romantic Review, 24(5), 31-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509585.2013.828400

Wordsworth's pamphlet Concerning the Relations of Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal to each other, and to the common enemy; at this crisis, and specifically as affected by the Convention of Cintra (1809) is, arguably, one of Romanticism's most nuanc... Read More about ‘“For the sake of illustrating principles”: Wordsworth, the Convention of Cintra, and Satirical Prints’.

‘“An Introduction to the Literary Person[s]” of Anne Lister and the Ladies of Llangollen’ (2013)
Journal Article
Valladares, S. (2013). ‘“An Introduction to the Literary Person[s]” of Anne Lister and the Ladies of Llangollen’. Literature Compass, 10(4), 353-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12054

Anne Lister eagerly looked forward to her tour of North Wales in July 1822 – a tour made in the company of a dear aunt, and whose principal highlight would be a visit to Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the celebrated Ladies of Llangollen. Ten days... Read More about ‘“An Introduction to the Literary Person[s]” of Anne Lister and the Ladies of Llangollen’.