Writing the scientist: biography and autobiography
(2017)
Book Chapter
(2017). Writing the scientist: biography and autobiography. In Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-century Literature and Science
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/10.1177/0148333116645609While 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.
“I am the sum of my languages” (Hoffman 1989: 273) – Bilingual Writing: Transitional Spaces and Reconciliation (2017)
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(2017). “I am the sum of my languages” (Hoffman 1989: 273) – Bilingual Writing: Transitional Spaces and ReconciliationThis paper seeks to offer a theoretical and practical definition of bilingual writing. In the first instance, I review other definitions in order to develop my own. In the second half of the paper, I focus on two particular examples of bilingual writ... Read More about “I am the sum of my languages” (Hoffman 1989: 273) – Bilingual Writing: Transitional Spaces and Reconciliation.
Mocking the Master: Early Responses to The Sacred Fount (2017)
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Lustig. (2017). Mocking the Master: Early Responses to The Sacred Fount. The Henry James Review, 38(1), 22-36. https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2017.0005Reviews of The Sacred Fount (1901) have previously been reprinted in a small number of source books, but it is now possible to extend our knowledge of the early reception of James’s most controversial and enigmatic novel. This article reprints select... Read More about Mocking the Master: Early Responses to The Sacred Fount.
Fictional Bodies, Factual Reports: Public inquiries, tv drama, and the interrogation of the NHS (2017)
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Bruce. (2017). Fictional Bodies, Factual Reports: Public inquiries, tv drama, and the interrogation of the NHS. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2017.0349This article addresses the question: ‘What can popular culture know?’ via an examination of the critique of one British public sector institution (the NHS) articulated through a medical drama aired on another British public sector institution (the BB... Read More about Fictional Bodies, Factual Reports: Public inquiries, tv drama, and the interrogation of the NHS.
'Speeds of Sound: On Fast Talking in Slow Movies' (2016)
Journal Article
Archer. (2016). 'Speeds of Sound: On Fast Talking in Slow Movies'. Cinema Journal, 55(2), 130-135In an essay published in 2008, Matthew Flanagan put forward his argument for what he called an “aesthetic of slow” in contemporary film.1 Partly a series of observations on tendencies in world cinemas, partly a manifesto for a specific form of counte... Read More about 'Speeds of Sound: On Fast Talking in Slow Movies'.
'The Poets' War Revisited' (2016)
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Yearling, R. (2016). 'The Poets' War Revisited'. Ben Jonson Journal, 23(2), 231-245. https://doi.org/10.3366/bjj.2016.0166This essay seeks to explore the role played by John Marston in the so-called War of the Poets – the literary quarrel between a small group of playwrights, including Marston, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, and perhaps William Shakespeare, in the late sixt... Read More about 'The Poets' War Revisited'.
Fan du Cinéma: Imitation, Europe and The Trip to Italy (2014) (2016)
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Archer. (2016). Fan du Cinéma: Imitation, Europe and The Trip to Italy (2014). Studies in European Cinema, 246-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411548.2016.1249228his essay considers the role of imitation in Michael Winterbottom’s film The Trip to Italy, with reference to the performances of mimicry by its two protagonists (Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon), but also on the part of the film itself, both as a sequel... Read More about Fan du Cinéma: Imitation, Europe and The Trip to Italy (2014).
Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy (2016)
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Archer. (2016). Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy
'My thoughts shifted from the past to the future': Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 (2016)
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(2016). 'My thoughts shifted from the past to the future': Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 445-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2016.1228268This article explores time in Miné Okubo’s graphic memoir Citizen 13660. Drawing on the work of Homi Bhabha, and comics scholars like Thierry Groensteen, it argues that Okubo’s complex representation of time serves several functions. First, it underm... Read More about 'My thoughts shifted from the past to the future': Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660.
The commune in exile: urban insurrection and the production of international space (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). The commune in exile: urban insurrection and the production of international space. In Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (113-136). https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59706-9_6In Chapter 11 of J.-K. Huysmans’s A Rebours (1884; usually translated as Against Nature), Des Esseintes, its reclusive hero, inspired by reading Charles Dickens, leaves home with the intention of visiting London. He never arrives. Instead, he succeed... Read More about The commune in exile: urban insurrection and the production of international space.
Walking studies, the eastern townships, and William S. Messier’s Dixie (2016)
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Morgan. (2016). Walking studies, the eastern townships, and William S. Messier’s Dixie. Nottingham French Studies, 224-238. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2016.0150This article is part of a project entitled, ‘Heartlands/Pays du cœur’. This aims to offer new critical approaches to Québec's ‘regional’ novel; focusing on representations of rural, semi-rural, exurban and urban spaces and places outside of the provi... Read More about Walking studies, the eastern townships, and William S. Messier’s Dixie.
Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in Nymphomaniac, Shame, and Thanatomorphose (2016)
Book Chapter
featherstone. (2016). Carnotopia: The Culture of Sadism in Nymphomaniac, Shame, and Thanatomorphose. In Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, Sex, and the Deviant Body
Hospitality, Nostalgia, and the Itinerant Hero(ine) in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End (2016)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2016). Hospitality, Nostalgia, and the Itinerant Hero(ine) in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End. In Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture : Modern and Contemporary Perspectives
London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street (2016)
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McWilliam. (2016). London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street. Victoriographies, 6(1), 42 - 61. https://doi.org/10.3366/vic.2016.0210The moral justification for the rollback of benefits and services under the austerity programme unleashed by George Osborne since 2010, when he was first appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by British Prime Minister David Cameron, is predicated on... Read More about London's Dispossessed: Questioning the Neo-Victorian Politics of Neoliberal Austerity in Richard Warlow's Ripper Street.
The road movie: in search of meaning (2016)
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Archer. (2016). The road movie: in search of meaning
Beyond the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror and Posthuman Creationism in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) (2015)
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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).
Pot-boilers or “Glimpses” of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short Story (2015)
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Bowler, R. (2015). Pot-boilers or “Glimpses” of Reality? The Cultural and the Material in the Modernist Short Story. In British Women Short Story Writers: The New Woman To Now (50 - 65)
Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman (2015)
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Janes, D. (2015). Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman
Brooklyn fictions: the contemporary urban community in a global age (2015)
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Peacock, J. (2015). Brooklyn fictions: the contemporary urban community in a global ageBrooklyn Fictions: the Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age takes Brooklyn as a case study for an exploration of these issues and for an interrogation of the intrinsic virtues of “community” as an idea.