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I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts (2018)
Book Chapter
Shears. (2018). I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts. In Byron and Marginality (291 - 307)

It is arguable that Byron’s letters and journals have never really been on the fringes or margins of our responses to the poet. Those published, albeit in censored form, in Thomas Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron as early as 1830 made an im... Read More about I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts.

Battlefields, Burials and the English Civil Wars (2018)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2018). Battlefields, Burials and the English Civil Wars. In Battle-Scarred: Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars (23 - 39). https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526124807.003.0002

Twentieth-century practices of battlefield preservation construct war graves as sites of memory and continuing commemoration. Such ideas, though they have led archaeologists in a largely fruitless hunt for mass graves, should not be read back into th... Read More about Battlefields, Burials and the English Civil Wars.

Chapter 2. Questing for the post-postmodern: David Mitchell’s number9dream (2018)
Book Chapter
Bentley, N. (2018). Chapter 2. Questing for the post-postmodern: David Mitchell’s number9dream. In David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (39-52). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474262132.0008

Nick Bentley This chapter argues that number9dream represents a quest narrative in terms of both content and form. The novel begins by inhabiting the postmodernity of late-twentieth-century Tokyo, a setting in which the main character, Eiji Miyake, s... Read More about Chapter 2. Questing for the post-postmodern: David Mitchell’s number9dream.

Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State (2018)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2018). Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 11, 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-018-0233-z

In the last three decades, the rise of a populist challenge to the liberal political mainstream exposed how shallow the supposed victory of global liberalism was, even in its heartlands in Europe and North America. Exclusive nationalism and nativism,... Read More about Populism, Sovereigntism, and the Unlikely Re-Emergence of the Territorial Nation-State.

La música fusión, ¿verdadera inclusión? Una exploración de la escena fusión en Lima (Music fusion, true inclusion? An exploration of the fusion scene in Lima) (2018)
Journal Article
Montero Diaz, R. (2018). La música fusión, ¿verdadera inclusión? Una exploración de la escena fusión en Lima (Music fusion, true inclusion? An exploration of the fusion scene in Lima). Anthropologica, 97 -120. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201801.005

En los últimos años, la fusión intercultural en Lima ha ido creciendo hasta convertirse en un género musical ‘nacional’ portador y visibilizador de interacciones inter-sociales e inter-étnicas, las cuales retan la segregación cultural sistemática de... Read More about La música fusión, ¿verdadera inclusión? Una exploración de la escena fusión en Lima (Music fusion, true inclusion? An exploration of the fusion scene in Lima).

Mesmeric Rapport: the power of female sympathy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Mesmeric Rapport: the power of female sympathy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Journal of Victorian Culture, 366-380. https://doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcy034

Scenes of mesmerism and hypnotism in gothic novels are commonly read as symbolic of sexual assault that reinforces traditional hierarchies of gendered power. In contrast, Bram Stoker rejects the trope of the helpless woman controlled by the all-power... Read More about Mesmeric Rapport: the power of female sympathy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Sound design, composition and performance with interactive genetic algorithms (2018)
Thesis
Prescott, T. (2018). Sound design, composition and performance with interactive genetic algorithms. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/411221

A variety of work has been carried out investigating the suitability of interactive genetic algorithms (IGAs) for musical composition. There have been some promising results demonstrating that it is, in principle, an effective approach. Modern sound... Read More about Sound design, composition and performance with interactive genetic algorithms.

Tilly Kettle’s portraiture and the art of identity in eighteenth-century Britain and India (2018)
Thesis
Stringer, G. P. (2023). Tilly Kettle’s portraiture and the art of identity in eighteenth-century Britain and India. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/411478

This thesis examines the work of Tilly Kettle (1735-1786), the first professional British artist to work in India, and focuses on his portraiture in a quarter-century that saw Britain defeat European rivals during the Seven Years’ War, gain India, an... Read More about Tilly Kettle’s portraiture and the art of identity in eighteenth-century Britain and India.

Media, gender and domestic relations in post-Saddam Iraq (2018)
Thesis
Malik, H. (2018). Media, gender and domestic relations in post-Saddam Iraq. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/411337

The regime change of 2003 transformed the media environment in Iraq from one that was strictly limited and monopolised by the state, to one without any restrictions imposed by state agencies. Gender culture and ‘family values’ have especially been co... Read More about Media, gender and domestic relations in post-Saddam Iraq.

Contesting #stopIslam: Tensions around hate speech on social media (2018)
Journal Article
De Quincey, E., Poole, E., & Giraud, E. (2018). Contesting #stopIslam: Tensions around hate speech on social media. British Academy Review, 33,

Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and Eva Giraud explore the dynamics of a racist hashtag following the Brussels terrorist attack

The water-energy-food nexus at home: New opportunities for policy interventions in household sustainability (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). The water-energy-food nexus at home: New opportunities for policy interventions in household sustainability. Geographical Journal, 406-418. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12257

The nexus of water-energy-food (WEF) is as apparent at the household scale as it is anywhere else. We introduce the ‘Nexus at Home’ as a starting point for exploring the dynamics of WEF resource use and household sustainability. Drawing on two resear... Read More about The water-energy-food nexus at home: New opportunities for policy interventions in household sustainability.

Futures made present: architecture, monument, and the battle for the 'third way' in Fascist Italy (2018)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2018). Futures made present: architecture, monument, and the battle for the 'third way' in Fascist Italy. Fascism, 45-79. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00701004

During the late 1920s and 1930s, a group of Italian modernist architects, known as 'rationalists', launched an ambitious bid for convincing Mussolini that their brand of architectural modernism was best suited to become the official art of the Fascis... Read More about Futures made present: architecture, monument, and the battle for the 'third way' in Fascist Italy.

Land agents and urban aristocratic estates in nineteenth century Staffordshire: a comparison of Longton and Walsall (2018)
Thesis
Rogers, C. (2018). Land agents and urban aristocratic estates in nineteenth century Staffordshire: a comparison of Longton and Walsall. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/410298

This thesis examines the impact of the social and economic policies of two aristocratic landowners on the development of Staffordshire towns. The integral role of land agents is demonstrated by comparing the earl of Bradford’s Walsall estate with the... Read More about Land agents and urban aristocratic estates in nineteenth century Staffordshire: a comparison of Longton and Walsall.

Emerging from the Emergency: women in Indira Gandhi’s India, 1975-1977 (2018)
Thesis
Scott, G. (2018). Emerging from the Emergency: women in Indira Gandhi’s India, 1975-1977. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/410405

India’s State of Emergency (1975-1977) is a critical period in the independent nation’s history. The government’s suspension of democratic norms and its institution of many, now infamous repressive measures have been the subject of much commentary. H... Read More about Emerging from the Emergency: women in Indira Gandhi’s India, 1975-1977.

Icebergs in the desert: the links between capitalistexpansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah,1847-1896 (2018)
Thesis
Williamson, J. (2018). Icebergs in the desert: the links between capitalistexpansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah,1847-1896. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/410406

This thesis analyses debates over the economic future of postbellum Utah Territory, in order to demonstrate the connection between economic expansion and the promotion of a homogenous ‘American’ identity. Following the American Civil War, a dominant... Read More about Icebergs in the desert: the links between capitalistexpansion and the spread of 'American' values in Utah,1847-1896.