English
Welcome to the research outputs of the University of Exeter Department of English, part of the College of Humanities
Recent Submissions
-
Adventures of an unromantic biographer
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-04-03)This Reflection investigates some of the questions that arise when one attempts to ‘write lives together’. What are the intellectual and theoretical implications of this mode of biographical writing? What might be its ... -
"'We are where we are': Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn, Mythologies of Return and the Post-Celtic Tiger Moment"
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-10)Chapter 6 -
Love in the First Degree: Manfred, Byron, and Incest
(University of Maryland, 2017-12-01) -
'Bliss was it in that shirt to be alive': Connecting Romanticism and New Romanticism through dress
(Palgrave, 2018)Nobody likes the New Romantics. By and large, popular culture criticism that even bothers to mention the New Romantic fashion and music movement of the early 1980s dismisses it as vacuous, slick, self-absorbed, and (apparently ... -
Jules Feiffer’s Tantrum at the End of Narcissism’s Decade
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)- -
“Like Two Pigeons in One Nest, Like Two Seedlings in One Capsule”: Reading Goblin Market in Conjunction with Victorian Twin Discourse
(West Virginia University, 2017)- -
Science at the Seaside: Pleasure Hunts in Victorian Devon
(Oxford University Press, 2017-07)This chapter argues that the scientific and imaginative appeal of the Devon coast in the mid-Victorian period played a key role in the development of popular science and, more particularly, marine biology. It also played ... -
Translation in the circle of Robert Hooke
(Brill, 2017-09-30) -
'O Sely Ankir!'
(Boydell & Brewer, 2017-06) -
‘Home’ Front: Indian soldiers and civilians in Britain 1939-1945
(Routledge, 2017) -
The King James Bible and biblical images of desolation
(Oxford University Press, 2015)This chapter attends to the politics of translation, comparing how the King James Bible and the Geneva Bible represent the terrible desolation wrought by God’s punishment of nations in Isaiah 13 and 34. The Geneva’s ... -
National Representations, National Theatres: Aubrey Menen and the Experimental Theatre Company
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-03-22)This article discusses the Indian-Irish playwright and critic Aubrey Menen’s involvement with London's theatre scene in the 1930s. Aubrey Menen became heavily involved in student drama activities while a philosophy student ... -
Shakespeare, Rule-Breaking and Artistic Genius: the Case of Sir John Soane
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-08-01)The close of the eighteenth century marked the end of a long debate about Shakespeare’s stylistic affiliations and, correspondingly, the sort of authoritative model the national poet served to would-be artists. In very ... -
‘Wet Paper Between Us’: Walt Whitman and the Transformations of Labor
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-03) -
The Folly of the Machiavel: Christopher Marlowe's Mortimer and the Guise
(CESR: Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais de Tours, 2016-07)Les réponses à Machiavel dans l’Angleterre du xvie siècle tardif, dont plusieurs médiatisées par la France, étaient souvent tissées avec un discours de folie assorti de tropes dramatiques. Ce phénomène éclaire la représentation ... -
The Sydney language: William Dawes in Australian literature
(New Scholar Editorial Board, 2014-12-01)Two recent books by Sydney writers have explored the figure of William Dawes, drawing on his Sydney Cove language notebooks. The Lieutenant by Kate Grenville (2008) fictionalises Dawes' life, while Ross Gibson's 26 Views ... -
Becoming-Witch: Narrating witchcraft in early modern English news pamphlets
(University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press), 2019)The texts that are the focus of this paper were published in the Elizabethan and Jacobean period in London, specifically in 1582 and 1612. They come from a tradition of publishing in print and for sale court documents from ... -
"Unreasonable Magic": Witchcraft, War and the Novel 1919-29
(University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press), 2017)This article examines some of the resonances of the First World War in witchcraft fiction, predominantly British. It begins with gender, religion and youth, issues rightly foregrounded in the small amount of pioneering ... -
Herman Melville's Retirement
(John Hopkins University Press, 2016-10)This essay provides an alternative account of Melville’s later career, one that resists the implicit Romantic privileging of literary labor over other forms of work and complicates the familiar late-Melvillean narratives ...