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Fred Rohner, La Guardia Vieja: El vals criollo y la formación de la ciudadanía en las clases populares (1885–1930) (Lima: Instituto de Etnomusicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2018), pp. 463, pb. (2020)
Journal Article
Montero-Diaz, F. (2020). Fred Rohner, La Guardia Vieja: El vals criollo y la formación de la ciudadanía en las clases populares (1885–1930) (Lima: Instituto de Etnomusicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2018), pp. 463, pb. Journal of Latin American Studies, 52(3), 669-671. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x20000735

Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study (2020)
Journal Article
Kistler, J., & Shears, J. (2020). Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/bj37-7330

Screencasts and other video content offer an innovative means of improving communication between tutors and students and addressing student concerns about limited contact hours, which can be particularly pressing in English Literature. Our students’... Read More about Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study.

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.

Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia (2020)
Book
Sargent. (2020). Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia

This book focuses on the period from the seventh to eleventh centuries that witnessed the rise and fall of Mercia, the great Midland kingdom, and, later, the formation of England. Specifically, it explores the relationship between the bishops of Lich... Read More about Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia.

‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube (2020)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (2021). ‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube. New Media and Society, 23(9), 2754--2772. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820939446

This article is based on an analysis of ‘anti-haul’ videos on YouTube, where a vlogger explains which beauty products they plan not to buy. Anti-haul vloggers have much in common with ‘culture jamming’ movements, which use the communicative practice... Read More about ‘What I’m not gonna buy’: Algorithmic culture jamming and anti-consumer politics on YouTube.

“Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy (2020)
Journal Article
Yearling. (2020). “Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy. Shakespeare, 16(4), 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2020.1787496

Any discussion of comedy as a dramatic form is rendered difficult by the fact that the term "comedy" has two quite separate meanings: a work that is intended to make spectators laugh and a work that has a happy ending. In the early modern period, lit... Read More about “Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy.

An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994) (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994). Wasafiri, 10 - 16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2020.1760468

This article rereads Penelope Lively's first memoir Oleander, Jacaranda (1994) as not only witnessing the end of British colonial rule, but also revealing how life in England – and more widely Britain – elides and conceals the impact of Empire. Livel... Read More about An Island of Whiteness: Rereading Penelope Lively’s Oleander, Jacaranda (1994).

'Migration, naturalisation, and the ‘British’ world, c.1900-1920’ (2020)
Journal Article
Bright. (2020). 'Migration, naturalisation, and the ‘British’ world, c.1900-1920’

This article explores the distinctly legal vagueness that underpinned citizenship and subjecthood in the British empire in the early twentieth century, drawing specifically on examples from South Africa and Australia. Situating the administration of... Read More about 'Migration, naturalisation, and the ‘British’ world, c.1900-1920’.

‘Minimum dwelling’ all'italiana: from the case popolari to the 1929 ‘model houses’ of Garbatella (2020)
Journal Article
Kallis. (2020). ‘Minimum dwelling’ all'italiana: from the case popolari to the 1929 ‘model houses’ of Garbatella. Journal of Urban History, 603-621. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218821336

At the twelfth congress of the International Federation of Housing and Town Planning (IFHTP), held in Rome in September 1929, a set of thirteen “model” affordable houses situated in the garden suburb of Garbatella were presented to the delegates. Whi... Read More about ‘Minimum dwelling’ all'italiana: from the case popolari to the 1929 ‘model houses’ of Garbatella.

A poet prepares: persona, process, and performance in the poetry of Anne Sexton (2020)
Thesis
Bailey, D. (2020). A poet prepares: persona, process, and performance in the poetry of Anne Sexton. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis represents the first sustained examination of Sexton’s early and unpublished poetry, which was written between 1956 and 1960. Additionally, it also represents the first detailed scholarly attempt to discuss Sexton’s creative practice in r... Read More about A poet prepares: persona, process, and performance in the poetry of Anne Sexton.

Beyond the Five Towns: a re-evaluation of Arnold Bennett (2020)
Thesis
Scragg, H. L. (2020). Beyond the Five Towns: a re-evaluation of Arnold Bennett. (Thesis). Keele University

‘I have a great deal to say, and I mean to say it. As for my work being taken seriously, we shall see about that’. Arnold Bennett, 1909 (Bennett, letter to Pinker dated 17 May 1909, in Letters, Vol. I, p. 123.) Arnold Bennett occupies a somewha... Read More about Beyond the Five Towns: a re-evaluation of Arnold Bennett.