Browsing School of Humanities by Title
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A.H. Clough, F.J. Child, and Mid-Victorian Chaucer
(Article)This article examines the understanding of Chaucer's language and metre developed in the correspondence between Clough and the Harvard Professor Francis James Child, and places it in the context of changing Anglo-American ... -
Abraham's Luggage
(Book)From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a ... -
Absent Histories and Absent Images: Photographs, Museums and the Colonial Past
(Article)Based on research in a range of UK museums, this paper explores the visibility and invisibility of the photographic legacy of colonial relations and the representation of the colonial past in museum galleries. It explores ... -
Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare's London
(Book)Acting Companies and Their Plays in Shakespeare’s London explores the vital relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history, considering some of the key factors shaping ... -
Adapation as Exploitation
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Adaptation and Melodrama: Origins and Development
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Adaptation, Sound and Shakespeare in the 1930s’
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Adaptations in the Sound Era: 1927-37
(Book)Focussing on promotional materials, Adaptations in the Sound Era: 1927-37 tracks the presence and marketing of 'words' in a variety of adaptations, from the introduction of sound in the late 1920s through to the mid-1930s. -
Adapting children’s literature
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Adapting Coriolanus: Tom Hiddleston’s Body and Action Cinema
(Article)Despite a critical movement seen across the humanities described as the ‘corporeal turn’ (Elam 143) in Shakespeare studies alone, adaptation studies has been slow to situate the body as a site of major interpretive ... -
Afterword
(Book chapter)This is the Afterword to a collection of essays on sport and the Cold war. It summarises the chapters' key themes, relates the collection to existing literature on sport and politics, and looks forward to new research themes. -
Afterword
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An Age of Speed
(Book chapter)This chapter looks at the rise of motor sport in Britain, particularly the advent of the Brooklands racing 'set' before World War One and revival during peacetime. Early feamel racing motorists such as Dorothy Levitt, of ...