Outputs (15)

Fires and Feasting: Political Festivity in Behn’s Exclusion Crisis Plays (2025)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (2025). Fires and Feasting: Political Festivity in Behn’s Exclusion Crisis Plays. Women's Writing, 32(2), 149-164. 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.

Introduction: Aphra Behn’s Later Work, New Interpretations (2025)
Journal Article
Adcock, R., & Rubik, M. (2025). Introduction: Aphra Behn’s Later Work, New Interpretations. Women's Writing, 32(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2025.2483021

The Reformation of the Heart: gender and radical theology in the English revolution (2025)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (in press). The Reformation of the Heart: gender and radical theology in the English revolution. The Seventeenth Century, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2024.2440243

Shaping Baptist Congregational Identities in Southwest England: The Loughwood 'Proceedings Book' (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adcock, R. (2023, April). Shaping Baptist Congregational Identities in Southwest England: The Loughwood 'Proceedings Book'

Sutton, Katherine (2023)
Book Chapter
Adcock, R. (2023). Sutton, Katherine. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Springer

The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost <b>The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost</b> , by Marilyn J. Westerkamp, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp., £19.99, (hb), ISBN: 9780197506905 (2022)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (2024). The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost , by Marilyn J. Westerkamp, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp., £19.99, (hb), ISBN: 9780197506905. Baptist Quarterly, 55(1), 32-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2022.2107348

Aphra Behn's The City Heiress. In The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. IV: Plays 1682-96 (General eds. Mel Evans, Elaine Hobby, Gillian Wright, Claire Bowditch) (2021)
Other
Adcock. (2021). Aphra Behn's The City Heiress. In The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. IV: Plays 1682-96 (General eds. Mel Evans, Elaine Hobby, Gillian Wright, Claire Bowditch)

Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections (2020)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2020). Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/kd1t-g977

This paper advocates for the use of learner-centred teaching activities and enquiry-based assessment through reflection on the organisation of a FHEQ Level 5 seventeenth-century English literature module. While English is a subject where, traditional... Read More about Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections.

Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 (2015)
Book
Adcock. (2015). Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680

Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist wo... Read More about Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680.

"Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682) (2014)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (2014). "Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682). Women's Writing, 34 -55. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2014.941182

Aphra Behn’s The Roundheads (1st perf. 1681, pub. 1682) was produced during a propaganda battle between the Whigs and Tories and set during the Interregnum in order to draw parallels between parliamentary usurpation and the Whig plea for
“liberty an... Read More about "Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682).