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Weak Spot (2017)
Digital Artefact
Morgan. (2017). Weak Spot

Short story inspired by the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. Published on the Coordinates Society website, 17 October 2017.

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

San Francisco Sigh (2016)
Digital Artefact
Morgan. (2016). San Francisco Sigh

Short essay, published on the Coordinates Society website, 21 April 2016.

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.

"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).

Dualisms and balances of power: contextualizing the poems of Elizabeth Siddal (2014)
Thesis
Woolley, A. (2014). Dualisms and balances of power: contextualizing the poems of Elizabeth Siddal. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/403807

Existing studies of Elizabeth Siddal are largely biographical and this has coloured the presently limited analysis of her poetry, and to a lesser extent, her art. Where poetic and artistic commentary has been published, it tends to be used as a means... Read More about Dualisms and balances of power: contextualizing the poems of Elizabeth Siddal.

‘“The beauty of your line – the life behind it”: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression’ (2011)
Journal Article
Bowler, R. (2011). ‘“The beauty of your line – the life behind it”: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression’. Katherine Mansfield Studies, https://doi.org/10.3366/kms.2011.0008

This article examines Katherine Mansfield's aesthetics and attitude to the relation between what she called ‘life’ and work, the visual and the intellectual. It emphasises doubleness both in Mansfield's selves and in her aesthetics, a doubleness whic... Read More about ‘“The beauty of your line – the life behind it”: Katherine Mansfield and the Double Impression’.

Hands-on Modernism: representations of the hand in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and modernist literature 1914-1939
Thesis
(2012). Hands-on Modernism: representations of the hand in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and modernist literature 1914-1939

The fragmentation endemic to modernism poses the difficult question of how we read the modernist body. In this thesis, I propose a new critical approach in response to this question – theoretical partialism – whereby looking at the particular and rea... Read More about Hands-on Modernism: representations of the hand in Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and modernist literature 1914-1939.

Oscar Wilde and Frederick Rolfe: two Catholic converts in 1890s' english literature
Thesis
Cruise, C. (1986). Oscar Wilde and Frederick Rolfe: two Catholic converts in 1890s' english literature

This thesis begins with an examination of a theme crucial to the understanding of the role of Catholicism - its drawbacks and attractions - for the English would-be convert. I choose to look initially at two converts, Thomas Arnold jnr and 'John Oliv... Read More about Oscar Wilde and Frederick Rolfe: two Catholic converts in 1890s' english literature.

Some aspects of the Romano-British Church of the fourth and fifth centuries
Thesis
(1982). Some aspects of the Romano-British Church of the fourth and fifth centuries

Evidence for the Baptismal and Eucharistic liturgies used by the Romano-British Church of the fourth and fifth centuries is at the moment confined to a few incidental references in the writings of St. Patrick and of fEastidiusf - in so far as these r... Read More about Some aspects of the Romano-British Church of the fourth and fifth centuries.

Charles Dickens before 1850, with special reference to the child figure in Barnaby Rudge, the old curiosity shop and dombey and son
Thesis
Giddings, R. (1973). Charles Dickens before 1850, with special reference to the child figure in Barnaby Rudge, the old curiosity shop and dombey and son

This is a study of three of Dickens' early novels which all contain a centrally important treatment of a child figure. The aim has been to demonstrate how Dickens uses the figure of the child to explore the deep changes in life, in society, in human... Read More about Charles Dickens before 1850, with special reference to the child figure in Barnaby Rudge, the old curiosity shop and dombey and son.