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Gyorgy Lukacs and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2023)
Journal Article
Davies, L. L. (2023). Gyorgy Lukacs and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 71(2), 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2023-2014

This article explores Gyorgy Lukacs's reflections on the relationship between the eighteenth-century novel and early modern capitalism. As such, it offers a critical overview of Lukacs's treatment of this subject in two major works - The Theory of th... Read More about Gyorgy Lukacs and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.

Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels (2022)
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Lustig, T. J. (2023). Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels. Children's Literature in Education, 54(4), 483-499. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-022-09475-y

Jacqueline Rose’s influential notion of the “impossibility” of children’s literature rests on the claim that such works “frame” the child and place the adult “first”. Although Ransome’s writings undoubtedly contain instances of such divisions and hie... Read More about Inscription and Intergenerational Connection in Arthur Ransome's Lakeland Novels.

An Allusion to Don Juan: Reappraising Branwell Bronte's Byronic Self-Fashioning (2021)
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Shears, J. (2021). An Allusion to Don Juan: Reappraising Branwell Bronte's Byronic Self-Fashioning. Brontë Studies, 30-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1991615

In January 1847, Branwell Brontë wrote a letter to his friend J. B. Leyland quoting from Lord Byron’s satirical epic Don Juan. This was an unusual choice of allusion given that the topic is Byron’s feelings of longsuffering that Branwell usually rela... Read More about An Allusion to Don Juan: Reappraising Branwell Bronte's Byronic Self-Fashioning.

May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte (2020)
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Bowler. (2020). May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte. Feminist Modernist Studies, 1 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2020.1850146

This article surveys May Sinclair’s writing on the Brontë sisters in order to chart her revisionist impulse with relation to their reputation, her anxiety about her own literary reputation, genius in women and intellectual self-sufficiency. I argue t... Read More about May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte.

Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections (2020)
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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.

Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study (2020)
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Kistler, J., & Shears, J. (2020). Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/bj37-7330

Screencasts and other video content offer an innovative means of improving communication between tutors and students and addressing student concerns about limited contact hours, which can be particularly pressing in English Literature. Our students’... Read More about Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study.

“Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy (2020)
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Yearling. (2020). “Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy. Shakespeare, 16(4), 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2020.1787496

Any discussion of comedy as a dramatic form is rendered difficult by the fact that the term "comedy" has two quite separate meanings: a work that is intended to make spectators laugh and a work that has a happy ending. In the early modern period, lit... Read More about “Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy.

'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience (2019)
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Shears. (2019). 'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience. Romanticism, 249-260. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0430

This article explores the complications involved in speaking from a position of seniority and experience in the life and work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It goes beyond the familiar caricatures of Coleridge as a garrulous old man, perpetuated by the... Read More about 'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience.

Pouring out of one vessel into another: Originality and Imitation in Two Modern Adaptations of Tristram Shandy (2018)
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Seager. (2018). Pouring out of one vessel into another: Originality and Imitation in Two Modern Adaptations of Tristram Shandy. Adaptation, 228-251. https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apy010

Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759–67) appears to resist adaptation. Its verbal density, narrative complexity, and self-conscious bookishness mark it out as intensely medium-specific. However, its richly allusive style, scepticism about conventi... Read More about Pouring out of one vessel into another: Originality and Imitation in Two Modern Adaptations of Tristram Shandy.

'Th'Extended Dream': Pope's Play with Sexual and Textual Instabilities, 1705-1737 (2017)
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(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.

Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession (2017)
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Seager. (2017). Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession. Huntington Library Quarterly, 47-69. https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2017.0002

In this essay, Nicholas Seager argues for re-attributing two pamphlets to Daniel Defoe: A Secret History of One Year (1714) and Memoirs of the Conduct of Her Late Majesty and Her Last Ministry (1715). These works, published shortly after the Hanoveri... Read More about Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession.

“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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Peacock. (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/10.1080/17449855.2016.1228268

This 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.