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Artistic representations of infectious disease. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Artistic representations of infectious disease. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 1 - 5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2019.1705991

Artistic representations of disease are widespread yet largely ignored in health psychology research. In this paper we use two infectious diseases, tuberculosis and the plague, as tracers to study how infectious diseases are represented in novels, fi... Read More about Artistic representations of infectious disease..

The precarious lives of India’s Others: The creativity of precarity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2019)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2019). The precarious lives of India’s Others: The creativity of precarity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 1 - 13. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2019.1683758

This article traces the agency of Arundhati Roy’s precariat in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. In her novel, Roy focuses on how those in the most precarious of social positions manage to retain a toehold within the system by defiant creativity, lat... Read More about The precarious lives of India’s Others: The creativity of precarity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.

1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space (2019)
Thesis
Campion, J. (2019). 1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414976

This thesis utilises the walking-writing method to produce a work of creative non- fiction that explores the issues of memory, time and queer identity in rural spaces. The body of work about the walking-writing method has covered rural spaces and que... Read More about 1. How not to get pregnant, 2. Between places: the walking-writing method in rural industrial space.

‘Indifferent nature’: a comparative discussion of the production of rural space in the work of Ivan Turgenev and Thomas Hardy (2019)
Thesis
Curley, D. A. (2019). ‘Indifferent nature’: a comparative discussion of the production of rural space in the work of Ivan Turgenev and Thomas Hardy. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414216

This thesis seeks to develop a model for the analysis of rural space as a distinct category, through the integration of several of the disparate schools of thought on the subject of space. From the phenomenological to the postmodern a vacuity has lef... Read More about ‘Indifferent nature’: a comparative discussion of the production of rural space in the work of Ivan Turgenev and Thomas Hardy.

Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change (2019)
Journal Article
Archer. (2019). Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change. Cinema Journal, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1353/cj.2019.0020

This article considers the significance of transnational production, aesthetic, and narrative strategies in recent forms of "apocalyptic" science fiction cinema. As the article explores, a more transnational mode of science fiction offers the opportu... Read More about Transnational Science Fiction at the End of the World: Consensus, Conflict and the Politics of Climate Change.

’Urbs, ’urb girls and Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer (2019)
Journal Article
Morgan. (2019). ’Urbs, ’urb girls and Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer. Québec Studies, 68, https://doi.org/10.3828/qs.2019.18

This article considers representations of exurban spaces in Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer (2009), positioning it in relation to a broader take-up of “regional” spaces in Québec fiction. It argues that Delvaux’s novel is prescient in its blurring of dis... Read More about ’Urbs, ’urb girls and Martine Delvaux’s Rose amer.

William Burroughs' Cut-Ups Lost and Found in Translation (2018)
Journal Article
Harris. (2018). William Burroughs' Cut-Ups Lost and Found in Translation. Esprit Créateur, 58, 31-48. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2018.0044

Burroughs’ experimental “cut-up” texts of the 1960s have presented great challenges to readers, critics, and translators, and their French translations have proved especially controversial. This article argues that what has been lost in translation f... Read More about William Burroughs' Cut-Ups Lost and Found in Translation.

Sonic Spectres: Word Ghosts in Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter and the digital map project, 'Fictional Montreal/Montreal fictif' (2018)
Journal Article
Morgan. (2018). Sonic Spectres: Word Ghosts in Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter and the digital map project, 'Fictional Montreal/Montreal fictif'. The London Journal of Canadian Studies, 40-57. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ljcs.2018v33.004

This article analyses various ghosts and their connections with the unsaid and said in relation to Madeleine Thien’s Dogs at the Perimeter (2011) and the digital map project, ‘Fictional Montreal/Montréal fictif’ (Morgan and Lichti, 2016-17). Drawing... Read More about Sonic Spectres: Word Ghosts in Madeleine Thien's Dogs at the Perimeter and the digital map project, 'Fictional Montreal/Montreal fictif'.

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.

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.

Re-orientalism and Representation: Aman Sethi Talks About Delhi (2018)
Journal Article
Lau. (2018). Re-orientalism and Representation: Aman Sethi Talks About Delhi. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 372-386. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2018.1461984

In the (re)presentation of India by Indian authors writing in English there is an overlooked, long-standing tradition of sterling commentaries produced by social analysts. In the best of that tradition which blurs the divide between the literary and... Read More about Re-orientalism and Representation: Aman Sethi Talks About Delhi.

Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2018)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2018). Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 78-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989416631791

This article offers a comparative reading of the novel and film adaptation of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, looking at the ways these texts represent changing Western public perceptions towards Pakistan and vice-versa along the temporal axis 2001–200... Read More about Post-9/11 re-orientalism: Confrontation and conciliation in Mohsin Hamid’s and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Uneasy Passions: The Spectator’s Divergent Interpretations of Locke’s Theory of Emotion (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Uneasy Passions: The Spectator’s Divergent Interpretations of Locke’s Theory of Emotion. Eighteenth Century, 449 -467. https://doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2017.0036

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke is of two minds when it comes to human emotion. On the one hand, our passions represent an innate sensing faculty, given to us by "the infinite Wise Author of our being," for interpreting the intrinsi... Read More about Uneasy Passions: The Spectator’s Divergent Interpretations of Locke’s Theory of Emotion.

'Th'Extended Dream': Pope's Play with Sexual and Textual Instabilities, 1705-1737 (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). 'Th'Extended Dream': Pope's Play with Sexual and Textual Instabilities, 1705-1737. Modern Language Review, 822-841. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.112.4.0822

Pope's poems about love have a recurrent motif: a male lover, powerful but otherwise absent, appears in a dream. In the ‘Pastorals’, ‘Sapho to Phaon’, The Rape of the Lock, ‘Eloisa to Abelard’, ‘Ode to Venus’, and To Arbuthnot, this lover focuses the... Read More about 'Th'Extended Dream': Pope's Play with Sexual and Textual Instabilities, 1705-1737.

The Talke of the Towne: News, Crime and the Public Sphere in Seven (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The Talke of the Towne: News, Crime and the Public Sphere in Seven. Cultural and Social History, https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2017.1375703

This article reconsiders ideas of the public sphere in the seventeenth century, by focusing on how public opinion is shaped by the movement o information between media and between receivers. It contends that the scholarly preoccupation with a public... Read More about The Talke of the Towne: News, Crime and the Public Sphere in Seven.