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Québec’s new regional fiction: Louise Penny and Johanne Seymour (2021)
Journal Article
Morgan. (2021). Québec’s new regional fiction: Louise Penny and Johanne Seymour. British Journal of Canadian Studies, 33(2), 225-240. https://doi.org/10.3828/bjcs.2021.15

Louise Penny’s Still Life (2005) and Johanne Seymour’s Le Cri du cerf (2005) are both murder-mysteries set in the Eastern Townships, in south-eastern and south-central Québec. Much of the region borders the United States. To varying degrees, the bord... Read More about Québec’s new regional fiction: Louise Penny and Johanne Seymour.

‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in literature and history (2021)
Journal Article
Talbott. (2021). ‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in literature and history. Literature and History, 30(1), 3-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/03061973211007353

This article examines a range of fictional literature – poetry, prose, play and song produced between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries – that represents aspects of the Thirty Years’ War, a conflict fought in Europe from 1618-1648. Depiction... Read More about ‘Causing misery and suffering miserably’: Representations of the Thirty Years’ War in literature and history.

1. The revolt of the dolls: a novel and 2. The revolt of the dolls and other small rebellions: a critical introduction to the fairy-tales of Sophie von Baudissin (2021)
Thesis
Sampson, E. S. (2021). 1. The revolt of the dolls: a novel and 2. The revolt of the dolls and other small rebellions: a critical introduction to the fairy-tales of Sophie von Baudissin. (Thesis). Keele University

The German nineteenth-century fairy-tale has long been, and remains, largely synonymous with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, particularly in the wider public consciousness. While there is some awareness among the general public of other, contemporan... Read More about 1. The revolt of the dolls: a novel and 2. The revolt of the dolls and other small rebellions: a critical introduction to the fairy-tales of Sophie von Baudissin.