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An Intriguing Monastic Collection? The Case of Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense MS 2010 (2025)
Journal Article
Cushing, K. G. (online). An Intriguing Monastic Collection? The Case of Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense MS 2010. Rechtsgeschichte,

Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense MS 2010 is an intriguing witness to canonistic activity in eleventh-and early twelfth-century Rome and its environs. The manuscript itself-or more properly the two manuscripts that were combined (as I will argue) sometime... Read More about An Intriguing Monastic Collection? The Case of Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense MS 2010.

Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820 (2025)
Thesis
Stanbridge, E. Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109729

This dissertation assesses the contributions of three biographers – Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821), Anna Seward (1742-1809), and Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) – to the development of British life-writing in the period 1780-1820. This examination of th... Read More about Rewriting lives: reading, sociability, and authority in women’s literary biography, 1780-1820.

Cutting matters: collage poetics and politics in feminist experimental poetry (2025)
Thesis
Merrydew, A. J. Cutting matters: collage poetics and politics in feminist experimental poetry. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109501

Despite the increasing prevalence of collage experiments by feminist poets since the twenty-first century, the use of such methods to shape feminist politics in poetry has not been widely researched. The limited research on collage aesthetics often p... Read More about Cutting matters: collage poetics and politics in feminist experimental poetry.

Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820 (2025)
Thesis
Hardiman, E. R. Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109990

This thesis explores the subject of elite masculinity in the late eighteenth century. Specifically, I focus on the discussion of, and resistance to, normative conceptions of genteel masculinity and how efforts to refashion and reimagine those dominan... Read More about Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820.

Analysing the narrative possibilities of interactive film from a practical perspective (2025)
Thesis
Yang, S. Analysing the narrative possibilities of interactive film from a practical perspective. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1111051

This thesis, combining an extended essay and a creative project of equivalent length, explores the narrative possibilities of interactive films. It focuses on the potential of alternative plotlines to explore the ‘what-if’ story in the parallel unive... Read More about Analysing the narrative possibilities of interactive film from a practical perspective.

The emotional history of the gothic novel, 1790–1810 (2025)
Thesis
Jones, T. D. The emotional history of the gothic novel, 1790–1810. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109368

This thesis examines the role of emotions in a selection of Romantic-period gothic novels: Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian, Charlotte Smith’s The Old Manor House, Regina Maria Roche’s Children of the Abbey, and Charlotte Dacre’s... Read More about The emotional history of the gothic novel, 1790–1810.

1. The Transition: a novel. 2. The space allowed to women in selected contemporary male-authored texts: a critical essay (2025)
Thesis
Smith, R. W. C. 1. The Transition: a novel. 2. The space allowed to women in selected contemporary male-authored texts: a critical essay. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109354

This project aims to creatively reclaim a literary space for women as the victims of male violence, and to critically examine the space women have been allowed in recent maleauthored literary works. The creative component, The Transition, is an inter... Read More about 1. The Transition: a novel. 2. The space allowed to women in selected contemporary male-authored texts: a critical essay.

Fires and Feasting: Political Festivity in Behn’s Exclusion Crisis Plays (2025)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (in press). Fires and Feasting: Political Festivity in Behn’s Exclusion Crisis Plays. Women's Writing, 32(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2025.2483028

This essay situates Aphra Behn’s plays, The Roundheads (1681/2) and The City-Heiress (1682), in the ongoing contest for physical and ideological control of the City of London during the Exclusion Crisis. In particular, it considers their dramatisatio... Read More about Fires and Feasting: Political Festivity in Behn’s Exclusion Crisis Plays.

Roundtable-XXVI-27 (2025)
Digital Artefact
Bright, R. (in press). Roundtable-XXVI-27. [ https://hdiplo.org/to/RT26-27]

This is my introduction to the Roundtable: Stuart Ward. Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.