All Outputs (8)

The ‘Wonder’ in the Handkerchief (2025)
Journal Article
Bruce, S. (in press). The ‘Wonder’ in the Handkerchief. Textual Practice,

Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus (2024)
Journal Article
Bruce, S. (2024). Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12923

Eschewing the symbolic in favour of commitment to the unmediated replication of exactly that which is actually observed, Hunter’s attitude to the images in his Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus embraces a juridical ideal of scientific representation... Read More about Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus.

Leaving Home: Europe and Utopia (2019)
Journal Article
Bruce. (2019). Leaving Home: Europe and Utopia. Studies in Arts and Humanities, 5(1), 129 - 144. https://doi.org/10.18193/sah.v5i1.156

In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum politicians and journalists invoked the concept of utopia to disparage positions diametrically opposed. On the one hand, the adjective ‘utopian’ was deployed to describe appeals to the possibility of a rediscov... Read More about Leaving Home: Europe and Utopia.

Fictional Bodies, Factual Reports: Public inquiries, tv drama, and the interrogation of the NHS (2017)
Journal Article
Bruce. (2017). Fictional Bodies, Factual Reports: Public inquiries, tv drama, and the interrogation of the NHS. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2017.0349

This article addresses the question: ‘What can popular culture know?’ via an examination of the critique of one British public sector institution (the NHS) articulated through a medical drama aired on another British public sector institution (the BB... Read More about Fictional Bodies, Factual Reports: Public inquiries, tv drama, and the interrogation of the NHS.

Utopian Justifications: More’s Utopia, Settler Colonialism, and Contemporary Ecocritical Concerns (2015)
Journal Article
Bruce, S. (2015). Utopian Justifications: More’s Utopia, Settler Colonialism, and Contemporary Ecocritical Concerns. College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, 42(1), 23-43. https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2015.0009

Feminist Moments Reading Feminist Texts (2015)
Book
Bruce, S., & Smits, K. (Eds.). (2015). Feminist Moments Reading Feminist Texts

MONEY TALKS: CLASSES, CAPITAL, AND THE CASE OF CLOSE READING IN A SEMINAR ON THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (2013)
Journal Article
Bruce, S. (2013). MONEY TALKS: CLASSES, CAPITAL, AND THE CASE OF CLOSE READING IN A SEMINAR ON THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. English, 62(237), 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/eft004

The Hector Hypothesis: Disciplines, Difficulty, and Democracy (2012)
Journal Article
Bruce, S. (2013). The Hector Hypothesis: Disciplines, Difficulty, and Democracy. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 4(1), 6-23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-012-0125-4