School of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Adaptation and the Marketing of Shakespeare in Classical Hollywood
(Book chapter)This article looks at the relationship between marketing and adaptation through a study of Shakespeare adaptations in Hollywood's Classical Period. -
Women, Magazines and the Politics of Shopping: Holtby, Jameson and Woolf
(Article)Shopping was a vital part of the housewife’s work in the interwar era, an activity extending from her domestic identity as homemaker but realized through economic participation in the public sphere. Directed by the consumer ... -
‘Brightness and Unfixity: reframing epiphany in Alice Oswald’s Woods etc.’
(Article)Epiphany in contemporary British poetry is perceived by some poets and critics, often those who self-identify as being outside of the mainstream, as a uniform, coercive, teleological, and unchallenging literary mode. This ... -
Writing the Contemporary: Poetry and Postcards from UNESCO Cities of Literature
(Book)Writing the Contemporary brings together the work of three European poets to explore themes of home, technology and environment. Framed with postcards from other writers and expert introductions, the collection reflects ... -
A Woman in the Queue
(Other)This pamphlet of poems covers a range of themes including memory, childhood, rites of passage and being a mother. -
Purl
(Book)Purl is a full poetry collection. The collection comprises poems of family and memory, and land, sea and air, to explore some of the meanings of ‘purl’*. In particular, the collection considers these meanings in relation ... -
The Winter Olympics: A Century of Games on Ice and Snow
(Article)The Olympic Winter Games, although younger than their summer counterpart, nonetheless have a long and storied history. From the first iteration in Chamonix, France, in 1924, through the first off-set games in Lillehammer, ... -
Preaching Afterlife. Teachings on Purgatory in France, 1500-1700
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Ha Ha Only Serious: Irony in Information Warfare and the Comedy-Cloaked Extremism.
(Article)“I know words. I have the best words.” - Donald J. Trump, 30 December 2015. The 45th President of the USA has been accused on several occasions of ‘stochastic terrorism’, that is, the incitement to acts of violence by the ... -
British Jews and Anti-Fascism in the 1930s
(Article)Focusing on the experiences and life histories of 35 individuals, this article sheds light on the nature and extent of, and underpinning motivation for, anti-Fascism - both in the UK and during the Spanish Civil War - ... -
Biofiction and Writers' Afterlives
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Ecopoetics and Boyopoetics: Bloomfield, Clare and the Nature of Lyric
(Article)This article investigates the ecological lyrics of Robert Bloomfield and John Clare, suggesting that the elision of adult subject-positions in the latter was influenced by the pioneering poetry of the former. An alternative ... -
From Kantorowicz to the Windsors: Shakespeare and Adapting the Royal Body on Screen
(Article)Introduction to special issue ed. by Blackwell and Gerzic -
Trade and containerisation. Perspectives from the Indian Ocean world.
(Book chapter)This contribution begins with an overview of the scholarship on pre-modern Indian Ocean trade and current knowledge about technologies of trade in the western Indian Ocean. Viewing containerisation as a distinct and often ... -
A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age (800-1450)
(Book)The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources - and still flourishing there - this innovative volume nevertheless ... -
Navigating the "digital turn": on creative writing, resilience and sparking joy
(Article)The ‘digital turn’ brings opportunities and challenges for creative writers. One of the few things we can be sure of is ongoing change. This article is about how to navigate that change. -
Why we still have a fear of the dark
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Interdisciplinary Lessons Learned While Researching Fake News
(Article)The misleading and propagandistic tendencies in American news reporting have been a part of public discussion from its earliest days as a republic (Innis 2007; Sheppard 2007).‘Fake news’is hardly new (McKernon 1925) and ...
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