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Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir (2022)
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Yearling. (2022). Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir. https://doi.org/10.4000/episteme.15645

Critics have frequently argued about whether early modern plays like Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night are ultimately subversive or conservative in their attitudes towards gender and sexuality. Stephen Greenblatt, for example, claims that Twelfth Night’s c... Read More about Experimental Plays, Conventional Endings: Gender Normativity and the Female Spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir.

The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War (2022)
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Seager. (2023). The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War. Review of English Studies, 74(314), https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgac082

Daniel Defoe’s pirate novel Captain Singleton (1720) was republished in 1757, during the political and military crises of the early stages of the Seven Years’ War. The fact that Singleton at this time was extensively rewritten has gone entirely unnot... Read More about The Afterlife of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton in the Seven Years' War.

Cheap Print, Crime and Information in Early Modern London: The Life and Death of Griffin Flood (2022)
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Jenner, M. S. R., & Liapi, L. (2022). Cheap Print, Crime and Information in Early Modern London: The Life and Death of Griffin Flood. Seventeenth Century, 38(2), 185-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2022.2144939

This article centres on the pamphlet The Life and Death of Griffin Flood informer (1623), which tells the career and execution through pressing of an informer and murderer working in early modern London. It outlines what archival research reveals abo... Read More about Cheap Print, Crime and Information in Early Modern London: The Life and Death of Griffin Flood.

‘By creating plot texts, man learnt to distinguish plots in life and thus to make sense of life’: a discussion of narratology in the work of Juri Lotman (2022)
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(2022). ‘By creating plot texts, man learnt to distinguish plots in life and thus to make sense of life’: a discussion of narratology in the work of Juri Lotman. Neohelicon, 627 - 644. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-022-00666-6

The overall aims of this article are to revisit one of the key contributions to narratology of the late twentieth century, Juri Lotman's The origin of plot in the light of typology of 1973, to attempt to determine its place in Lotman's work as a whol... Read More about ‘By creating plot texts, man learnt to distinguish plots in life and thus to make sense of life’: a discussion of narratology in the work of Juri Lotman.

International Fascism and the Allure of the ‘Third Way’ in Interwar Greece (2022)
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Kallis, A. (2022). International Fascism and the Allure of the ‘Third Way’ in Interwar Greece. Fascism, 11(2), 187 - 210. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-bja10048

The rise and victory of Italian Fascism in the first half of the 1920s passed Greece by. Yet soon afterwards the international experience of 'fascism' found more receptive audiences within the prodigious dissident 'third spaces' where more and more m... Read More about International Fascism and the Allure of the ‘Third Way’ in Interwar Greece.

From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism (2022)
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Kauders, A. (2022). From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism. Antisemitism Studies, 6(2), 208-240. https://doi.org/10.2979/antistud.6.2.02

This essay traces the recent critique of realistic conflict theory as it pertains to the study of antisemitism. In doing so, it will provide an overview of the arguments comprising the debate, outline the ways in which these arguments depend on speci... Read More about From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism.

‘John Duncalf the man that did rott both hands & leggs’: Chronicle of a Death Retold in the Long Eighteenth Century (2022)
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Atherton, I. (2022). ‘John Duncalf the man that did rott both hands & leggs’: Chronicle of a Death Retold in the Long Eighteenth Century. Midland History, https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2022.2126237

In 1677 John Duncalf, a Staffordshire labourer, fell ill after falsely swearing that he had not stolen a bible. He was visited by droves as he lay helpless, the flesh of his legs and arms mysteriously rotting away until they dropped off and he died.... Read More about ‘John Duncalf the man that did rott both hands & leggs’: Chronicle of a Death Retold in the Long Eighteenth Century.

West German Psychoanalysis in Post-Analytic Times: Navigating Demands for Self-Actualization, Self-Governance, and Social Change, 1968-1990 (2022)
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Kauders, A. D. (2023). West German Psychoanalysis in Post-Analytic Times: Navigating Demands for Self-Actualization, Self-Governance, and Social Change, 1968-1990. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 48(2), 197-219. https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2022.48.2.197

This essay critically engages with the view that governmentality defined the parameters of psychotherapy in the late twentieth century. Even though different therapeutic schools embraced the values of autonomy, authenticity, and self-control, the mea... Read More about West German Psychoanalysis in Post-Analytic Times: Navigating Demands for Self-Actualization, Self-Governance, and Social Change, 1968-1990.

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)
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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

Discourses of collective remembering: contestation, politics, affect (2022)
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Richardson, J. E., & Milani, T. M. (2022). Discourses of collective remembering: contestation, politics, affect. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2090979

This article introduces the key issues and themes that the articles in the Special Issue aim to apply and develop in greater detail. First, we argue that the field of collective remembering can be conceived as a site of active contestation, rather th... Read More about Discourses of collective remembering: contestation, politics, affect.

Responsibility for justice in action: commemoration, affect and politics at <i>Il Memoriale della Shoah</i> in Milan (2022)
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Milani, T. M., & Richardson, J. E. (2022). Responsibility for justice in action: commemoration, affect and politics at Il Memoriale della Shoah in Milan. Critical Discourse Studies, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2022.2092164

In this article, we analyse Il Memoriale della Shoah, the memorial of the victims of the Shoah in Milan, which was inaugurated in 2013 and, in 2015, was turned into a night shelter for destitute migrants. To understand the rhetoric and politics of th... Read More about Responsibility for justice in action: commemoration, affect and politics at <i>Il Memoriale della Shoah</i> in Milan.

The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65) (2022)
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Brill. (2022). The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65). Women's Writing, 30(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2022.2089962

Recent historiography has shown how slaveholding white women in the antebellum South United States often played active and eager roles in the administration of slavery and used violence against enslaved persons. Building on this recent historiography... Read More about The Rhetoric of Enslavement in White Confederate Planter Women’s Civil War Diaries (1861-65).

Jill Craigie and the BBC: Postwar television, feminist histories and modern femininities (2022)
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Price, H. (2022). Jill Craigie and the BBC: Postwar television, feminist histories and modern femininities. Critical Studies in Television, 17(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020221102064

Using the BBC Written Archives Centre's records, this working paper explores a documentary about the suffragettes written by feminist, socialist filmmaker Jill Craigie for the BBC in 1949 - illuminating her previously unconsidered efforts to bring th... Read More about Jill Craigie and the BBC: Postwar television, feminist histories and modern femininities.