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A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing (2014)
Journal Article
Archer. (2014). A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing. Adaptation, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apu008

This essay will consider the adaptation of series one of the Danish television serial Forbrydelsen / The Killing (2007) into David Hewson’s novel The Killing (2012). Considering the television show through theoretical paradigms of contemporary long-f... Read More about A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing.

Divorce and dialogue: intertextuality in Amara Lakhous' Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi (2014)
Journal Article
Palladino. (2014). Divorce and dialogue: intertextuality in Amara Lakhous' Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi. Language and Intercultural Communication, 14(3), 287 -303. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2014.900999

This study addresses the underdeveloped dialogue in contemporary intercultural relations between Italy and its ‘others’ to examine the ways in which Amara Lakhous' novel Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi (2010) [Divorce Islamic style in viale Mar... Read More about Divorce and dialogue: intertextuality in Amara Lakhous' Divorzio all'islamica a viale Marconi.

Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels (2013)
Journal Article
Peacock. (2013). Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels. English, 69 - 86 (17). https://doi.org/10.1093/english/eft001

This article looks at the three William McIlvanney novels featuring detective Jack Laidlaw – Laidlaw (1977), The Papers of Tony Veitch (1983), and Strange Loyalties (1991). It examines the shift from third-person narration in the first two books to f... Read More about Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels.

Aphrodite's faces: Toni Morrison's Love and Ethics (2012)
Journal Article
Palladino. (2012). Aphrodite's faces: Toni Morrison's Love and Ethics. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 334 -352

This study seeks to examine the ethical import of Morrison's eighth novel, Love (2003), through analysis of its narrative forms. With a complex weaving of narrative voices that offer oppositional points of views, Love demands that readers reconsider... Read More about Aphrodite's faces: Toni Morrison's Love and Ethics.

"As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642) (2011)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2011). "As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642). Prose Studies, 1 -18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2011.568778

When Sara Jones spoke in front of her separatist congregation in 1632, she was opening herself up to criticism for going against scriptural precedents: it was not divinely sanctioned that women should speak in church. Perhaps deriving confidence from... Read More about "As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642).

The woman question in English and Russian literature, 1848 - 1877 (2009)
Thesis
Barrett, R. (2009). The woman question in English and Russian literature, 1848 - 1877. (Thesis). Keele University

This is a comparative study of representations of the woman question in nineteenth-century English and Russian literature between 1848 and 1877. Here I examine how the issues of the woman question were reflected in contemporary fiction, focusing upon... Read More about The woman question in English and Russian literature, 1848 - 1877.

Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition
Thesis
(2014). Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition

This thesis closes an existing gap within the field of Victorian poetry scholarship, as the relationship between Pre-Raphaelite and working-class poets has yet to be explored in depth by critics, in part because they superficially appear to be dispar... Read More about Pre-Raphaelite and Working-Class poetry, 1850-1900: an examination of a contiguous tradition.

Risk, Disappointment and Distraction in Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men
Journal Article
Peacock. (in press). Risk, Disappointment and Distraction in Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men. European Journal of American Studies, https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.10252

Keith Gessen’s debut novel is not a “post-9/11” text in the manner of Falling Man or Terrorist. It is not concerned, explicitly, with the aftermath of the attacks. Like many “post-9/11” texts, however, it asks questions about the ability of twenty-fi... Read More about Risk, Disappointment and Distraction in Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men.