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Men in the Making: Youth, the Repertory, and the "Children'' of the Queen's Revels, 1609-13
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018-09-01)Focusing on the Children of the Queen’s Revels’ final years, this dissertation offers new readings of the company, closely informed by early modern understandings of masculine ‘youth’. An engagement with the company’s ... -
South Bank Shakespeare Goes Global: Broadcasting from Shakespeare’s Globe and the National Theatre
(Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2018-07-26)This chapter argues that whereas their authority stems from their historical association with the early modern theatre industry, South Bank Shakespeares are shaped by the distinctive architectures and the types of ... -
Shakespeare from the House of Molière: The Comédie-Française/Pathé Live Roméo et Juliette (2016)
(Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2018-07-26)This chapter analyses the broadcast of Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) that launched the Comédie-Française's collaboration with Pathé Live to bring three of the theatre's shows to cinema screens in Francophone regions. ... -
The age of the Cambro-Britons: Hyphenated British identities in the seventeenth century
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The Poetic Negotiations of a Gentleman Radical: Ernest Jones and the “Mighty Mind”
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Myth, Land, and History in the Poetry of James Clarence Mangan and Ernest Jones
(University of Huddersfield, 2015-12-15)This essay discusses poetry associated with Irish nationalism and Chartism. Chartism’s eventual de facto leader, Ernest Jones, was an admired and prolific poet; as Irish poets including James Clarence Mangan were helping ... -
The ragged claws of crisis: Reading ‘Prufrock’ in Detroit
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-09-04)Why might a B-grade horror film in 2015 stage a performative reading of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’? That is precisely what we encounter during It Follows, when a classroom recitation of the ... -
Shipwrecks and Mountaintops: Notes on Canto CII
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Community and apostrophe in E. L. Doctorow
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The Lost City of Cecil B. DeMille: Political Antiquity in Classical Hollywood
(Screening the Past, 2018-04-18) -
Reading Capital, Writing History: Pound's Marx
(Johns Hopkins University Press for Modernist Studies Association (MSA), 2017-11-01) -
Communist laughter, from Lenin to Lubitsch
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Věra Chytilová's The Fruit of Paradise [Ovoce stromů rajských jíme, 1969]: Radical aura and the international avant-garde
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018-05-18)Věra Chytilová’s The Fruit of Paradise was filmed in 1969 on the heels of Chytilová’s now world-famous feature Daisies [Sedmikrásky (1966)]. It symbolically bridges the spirit of the Czech New Wave and the occupation ... -
Ghosts from Limbo Patrum: Dalkey Archive Press and Institutional Literary History
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Modernism’s Rubber Sole
(UTS ePRESS, 2016-04-04)A review of David Trotter, Literature in the First Media Age: Britain between the Wars (Harvard University Press, 2013). -
Review of John Frow, Character and Person & The Value of Culture
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Review of Hal Foster's Bad New Days
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Visions of the Sun: Modernist Mexico's Transnational Horizons
(Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, 2016-12-01) -
Review of Enzo Traverso, Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory
(Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, 2017)