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Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections (2020)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2020). Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/kd1t-g977

This paper advocates for the use of learner-centred teaching activities and enquiry-based assessment through reflection on the organisation of a FHEQ Level 5 seventeenth-century English literature module. While English is a subject where, traditional... Read More about Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections.

"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).