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Adaptation and the Stage in the Nineteenth Century
Norwood, Janice (2015-05) -
The Al-Hamlet summit
Al-Bassam, S.; Holderness, G. (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2006)The room is set up like a conference hall somewhere in the Arab world, or perhaps like the legislative assembly of a small modern state. There are desks with push-button microphones and headsets. Behind, there is a screen, ... -
Ales, Beers, Shakespeares
Holderness, Graham; Loughrey, Bryan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016-06-01) -
Animated beings : enlightenment entomology for girls
George, Sam (2010-12)This short exploration of Enlightenment entomology for girls draws on the epistolary and dialogic form that was so crucial to young women's engagement with natural science in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth ... -
‘Another Generation Cometh’ : Apocalyptic Endings and New Beginnings in Science Fictional New London(s)
Wheeler, Patricia (2013)This article looks at the sub-genre of apocalyptic science fiction and explores the ways that a range of contemporary writers engage with natural, climatic disasters and the damage wrought to the planet in the Anthropocene ... -
Arabesque: Shakespeare and Globalisation
Holderness, G.; Loughrey, Bryan (English Association and D.S. Brewer, 2006) -
'An Arabian in my room' : Shakespeare and the Canon
Holderness, G. (2014-06-01)The literary canon commonly thought of as ancient, accepted and agreed, and consistent between high and popular cultures. This article demonstrates the falsity of these assumptions, and argues that the canon is always ... -
“Art’s Neurosis”: Medicine, Mass Culture and the Romantic Artist in William Hazlitt
Budge, G. (2008)Although criticism has traditionally focussed on the Romantic celebration of artistic genius, there is also an emphasis on artistic abjection in Romantic writing. This essay argues that the Romantic theme of abjection is ... -
“Banging the door on the war”: Re-visiting Robert Graves But It Still Goes On and the post-war plays of the 1920s
Maunder, Andrew (AHRC, 2018-07-24) -
The Bard returns to Shoreditch : Shakespearean Productions at the Britannia Theatre
Norwood, Janice (2008-01)Histories of nineteenth-century Shakespearean performances tend to concentrate on those produced at West End theatres. The minor theatres, attracting lower-class audiences, are largely ignored. This essay documents and ... -
Bardolotry: the cultural materialist’s guide to Stratford-upon-Avon
Holderness, G. (Manchester University Press, 1988)In the spring of 1936 the Directors of the Stratford-upon-Avon Festival Company received the following cable: ‘Please send earth Shakespeare’s garden water River Avon for dedication Shakespeare Theatre, Dallas, Texas, July ... -
Before Crusoe: Defoe, Voice, and the Ministry
Pritchard, Penny (Routledge, 2018-11-30)Showcasing Defoe’s early canon in relation to contemporary popular religious writing and a burgeoning print culture, this book offers new perspective on the 1719 literary watershed that was Robinson Crusoe. At a time when ... -
Black and Deep Desires : William Shakespeare, Vampire Hunter
Holderness, Graham (John Hunt Publishing, 2015-09-25)Historical fantasy novel which combines historical fiction, psychological mystery and supernatural thriller in a highly original and imaginative re-telling of the Gunpowder Plot -
Boxing the bard: Shakespeare and television
Holderness, G. (Manchester University Press, 1988)Elizabeth by the grace of God Queen of England, etc., to all Justices, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Head Constables, Under Constable, and all other our officers and minister, greeting. Know ye that we of our especial grace, ... -
British Literature of World War I
Maunder, Andrew; Smith, Angela K.; Potter, Jane; Tate, Trudi; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; School of Humanities; English Literature and Creative Writing; English Literature (Pickering and Chatto, 2011-02)Given the popular and scholarly interest in the First World War it is surprising how little contemporary literary work is available. This 5 volume anthology aims to redress this balance, making available a collection of ... -
The British Short Story
Maunder, Andrew; Liggins, Emma; Robbins, Ruth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)The short story remains a crucial - if neglected - part of British literary heritage. This accessible and up-to-date critical overview maps out the main strands and figures that shaped the British short story and novella ... -
British Theatre and the Great War, 1914-1919 : New Perspectives
Maunder, Andrew (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-08-03) -
C.H. Hazlewood (1819-1875)
Norwood, Janice (Gale, 2008) -
Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward : Botanical Poetry and Female Education
George, Samantha (2014-03)This article will explore the intersection between ‘literature’ and ‘science’ in one key area, the botanical poem with scientific notes. It reveals significant aspects of the way knowledge was gendered in the Enlightenment, ... -
Charlotte M Yonge : Religion, Feminism and Realism in the Victorian Novel
Budge, Gavin (Peter Lang Pub. Inc., 2007)