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Press and Politics in the Seventeenth Century (2023)
Book Chapter
Liapi, L. (2023). Press and Politics in the Seventeenth Century. In The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1 (529-545). Edinburgh University Press

Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter
Cook, D., & Seager, N. (2023). Introduction. In The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels (1-8). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909488.002

The introduction recounts the life and writing career of Jonathan Swift, centred on his authorship of Gulliver’s Travels (1726). It provides an overview of the action of Swift’s masterpiece, placing the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver in parallel to th... Read More about Introduction.

A Voyage to Brobdingnag (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2023). A Voyage to Brobdingnag. In D. Cook, & N. Seager (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels (137-149). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108909488.013

The Voyage to Brobdingnag reduces Gulliver from the magnanimous and principled behemoth of the Voyage to Lilliput to a risible and contemptible little beast. The first section considers how Gulliver is diminished to an inconsequential creature, objec... Read More about A Voyage to Brobdingnag.

The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity (2023)
Book Chapter
Williams, A. (2023). The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity. In The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (63-72). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003042983-8

This chapter evaluates the critical musicologies of the 1990s and follows their subsequent trajectories. It compares such models of encoded meanings with alternative approaches whereby meaning resides primarily in social use or in other forms of shar... Read More about The Locations of Musical Meaning and Subjectivity.

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

Politics (2023)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. (2023). Politics. In A. Rivero, & G. Justice (Eds.), Daniel Defoe in Context (155--162). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108872140.025

Written with general readers and students in mind, the essays in this volume provide up-to-date knowledge about eighteenth-century literature, culture, and history in a high quality, clearly written, but completely accessible form.

Defoe came to p... Read More about Politics.

The BJP and the war on history (2023)
Book Chapter
Sharma. (2023). The BJP and the war on history. In Passionate politics Democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election (53-62). https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00012

This book illustrates the economic, social and cultural processes that shaped political passions in India during the summer of 2019. The contributors compel us to take seriously the ‘structures of feeling’ in politics.

Introduction to May Sinclair, Cuentos de lo insólito (2023)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2023). Introduction to May Sinclair, Cuentos de lo insólito. In May Sinclair; Cuentos de lo insólito. (1). Spain: La Biblioteca De Carfax

Introduction to Spanish translation of May Sinclair's Uncanny Stories

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I., Blake, M., Sargent, A., & Tomkins, A. (2022). Introduction. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham

Anti-Sorosism: Reviving the 'Jewish World Conspiracy' (2022)
Book Chapter
Richardson, J., & Wodak, R. (2022). Anti-Sorosism: Reviving the 'Jewish World Conspiracy'. In Conspiracy Theory Discourses (395-420). https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.98.17ric

This chapter presents a Discourse-Historical Analysis (DHA) of the antisemitic conspiracy theory at the heart of ‘anti-Sorosism’. Anti-Sorosism is a term used to label the global campaign against George Soros, a Jewish American philanthropist of Hung... Read More about Anti-Sorosism: Reviving the 'Jewish World Conspiracy'.