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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.

Vital texts: democratic intertextuality in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915-1938/67) (2017)
Thesis
Pritchett, E. R. J. (2017). Vital texts: democratic intertextuality in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915-1938/67). (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/409157

Pilgrimage (1915-­-1938/67), Dorothy Richardson’s long modernist novel of female consciousness, has a history of mischaracterisation. The first novel to be termed stream of consciousness, Pilgrimage offers an account of New Woman, Miriam Hen... Read More about Vital texts: democratic intertextuality in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage (1915-1938/67).

In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness (2017)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2017). In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness. Christianity and Literature, 193-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148333116645609

While Byron is a poet often associated with feelings of resentment and anger, he is usually marginalized when it comes to the topic of forgiveness in the Romantic period. If forgiveness is debated in Byron then it is usually dominated by the suspicio... Read More about In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness.

The Sinhalese Diaspora: New Directions of Sri Lankan Diasporic Writing. (2016)
Journal Article
Lau. (2016). The Sinhalese Diaspora: New Directions of Sri Lankan Diasporic Writing. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2016.1111125

This article investigates a particular sub-section of South Asian literature in English, namely, contemporary diasporic social realism fiction by Sri Lankan authors. It not only explores the little-discussed Sri Lankan Sinhalese diaspora which is usu... Read More about The Sinhalese Diaspora: New Directions of Sri Lankan Diasporic Writing..

The Novel Sequence (2016)
Book Chapter
Bentley. (2016). The Novel Sequence. In P. Boxall, & B. Cheyette (Eds.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940 (258--271). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749394.003.0017

This chapter examines the novel sequence. The novel sequence has been an important part of British and Irish literary output in the period since 1940, with examples in all the major genres and modes of fiction. The post-Second World War period repres... Read More about The Novel Sequence.

Beyond the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror and Posthuman Creationism in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) (2015)
Journal Article
McWilliam. (2015). Beyond the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror and Posthuman Creationism in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012)

The Engineer appears to have sacrificed his own life in order to seed a planet, indicating members of this race are willing to destroy themselves in the service of a greater cause. [...]while Prometheus embraces von Däniken's notion that alien interv... Read More about Beyond the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror and Posthuman Creationism in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012).

'Ein weites Feld' as Post–Cold War Novel (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). 'Ein weites Feld' as Post–Cold War Novel. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 190-207. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-2882617

Günter Grass's novel Ein weites Feld caused a storm of controversy when it was published in Germany in 1995. There was an expectation that his first novel after the fall of the Berlin Wall would answer the question of what should now constitute a nat... Read More about 'Ein weites Feld' as Post–Cold War Novel.

"Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682) (2014)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (2014). "Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682). Women's Writing, 34 -55. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2014.941182

Aphra Behn’s The Roundheads (1st perf. 1681, pub. 1682) was produced during a propaganda battle between the Whigs and Tories and set during the Interregnum in order to draw parallels between parliamentary usurpation and the Whig plea for
“liberty an... Read More about "Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682).

India through re-Orientalist Lenses (2014)
Journal Article
Lau, & Mendes, A. (2014). India through re-Orientalist Lenses. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 706-727. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2014.984619

Re-Orientalism, initially defined as the perpetration of Orientalism by ‘Orientals’ (Lau 2009), is a discourse which comes out of and is inescapably informed by postcolonial and diasporic legacies. The investigation of re-Orientalism has revealed new... Read More about India through re-Orientalist Lenses.