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Introduction: Patriarchal backlashes to feminism in times of crisis: plus ça change, moins ça change European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Renate Haas, Florence Binard
ABSTRACT Susan Faludi’s feminist classic Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women was first published in 1991, thirty-one years ago, and yet its message seems to resonate more clearly than ever. The current issue focuses on present-day Europe and the last few decades, covering a very wide spectrum. There are surveys of countries or their crucial sectors (Bulgaria, Italy and France). The
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Globalising genderphobia and the case of Bulgaria European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Emilia Slavova
ABSTRACT Globalisation has made it easier for progressive ideas to cross borders. Yet the same can be said about regressive ideologies. Under the guise of protecting local traditions, family rights and national identity, genderphobic discourses have spread in seemingly unrelated parts of the world. Bulgaria is a case in point: a powerful religious-nationalist-conservative front has formed against women’s
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We need to talk about gender: anti-feminist, anti-gender backlash all’italiana European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Polina Shvanyukova
ABSTRACT This paper engages with the topic of anti-feminist, anti-gender backlash in contemporary Italy in three steps. Firstly, it reviews some recent research examining the various ramifications of anti-feminist and anti-gender discourse in the Italian context. The role that the Catholic Church has played in championing the crusade against gender, most visibly by fabricating the so-called ideologia
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“Antifeminist ‘feminism’”: the case of French “decolonial intersectional feminism” European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Florence Binard
ABSTRACT The object of this article is to show that in recent times of crisis – notably in view of the repeated terrorist attacks that have taken place in France – a form of insidious backlash on feminism has operated through antifeminist appropriations of feminism by self-named French “decolonial intersectional feminists” whose antiracist stance and praxis leads them to sometimes distort and even
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Memes, trolls and the manosphere: mapping the manifold expressions of antifeminism and misogyny online European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Maxime Dafaure
ABSTRACT Through a number of case studies, this article will conduct an analysis of the sometimes seemingly ubiquitous antifeminism, and even misogyny, in certain anglophone online spaces, and of their roots in older historical antifeminist discourses. It will also discuss how this patriarchal backlash is strategically presented by its proponents as an indicator of a crisis in contemporary masculinity
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Precarious times, Neoliberalist backlashes and discourses of post-truth in Ali Smith’s Summer European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Julia Kuznetski
ABSTRACT This article is a response to the neoliberalist/right-wing populist backlashes in times of crisis and their reflection in the media, as well as the multidirectional crises that Europe is facing at the moment, most notably the war in Ukraine and the recent Covid-19 pandemic. I argue that these appeared as crises within crises, happening to an already socially precarious world, laying bare the
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A note on Angela Merkel’s review of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and feminisms East-West European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Renate Haas
ABSTRACT Angela Merkel’s review of Susan Faludi’s Backlash from 1993 is an illuminating document as regards her relationship with feminism as well as with the media. She wrote it as Minister for Women and Youth, when a central task was bringing East and West Germany again closer together. Twelve years later, during the decisive election campaign of 2005, Alice Schwarzer’s EMMA, a leading feminist magazine
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Flawed arguments, structural misogyny and rape culture: court cases in contemporary literature European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 M.S. Suárez Lafuente
ABSTRACT This article highlights the persistence and violence of rape culture not only insofar as it pertains to sexual aggression but also in reference to arguments used in court cases. The language and body language used by defence attorneys add to the psychological pain suffered by the victim in having to face her aggressor(s) and relive a traumatic experience. I will analyse some contemporary British
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#Feminist – naming controversies and celebrating points of connection and joy in current feminisms European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Greta Olson, Elisabeth Lechner
ABSTRACT In a dialogue, the authors discuss controversies in feminisms and their hopes for feminist futures. The first sections dismantle oppositional catfight narratives regarding feminisms and highlight the misogynist and transphobic cultural-political work they perform. Feminists and trans activists find common cause in resisting the subordination and control of womxn’s and trans persons’ bodies
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Victorian materialisms: approaching nineteenth-century matter European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Ariane de Waal, Ursula Kluwick
ABSTRACT In this introduction to the special issue Victorian Materialisms, the authors review the material turn in cultural and literary studies, foregrounding the necessity of more historical nuance. While new materialist accounts tend to stress the post-Enlightenment persistence of dualistic oppositions between nature and culture, humans and nonhumans, body and mind, the editors of this special issue
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Littoral books: archiving oceanic memory through pressed and printed plants European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Ann Garascia
ABSTRACT This article identifies a Victorian moment in the genealogy of the intellectual formation of the “book of nature” made visible through Charles Anderson’s Sea Mosses herbarium (1873) to demonstrate how the herbarium transforms the metaphorical “book of nature” into a material site of ecological archiving. To underscore the registers of ecological archiving and reading taking shape through Anderson’s
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Mary Seacole’s plant matter(s): vegetal entanglements of the Black Atlantic in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Jennifer Leetsch
ABSTRACT This article offers a new reading of Mary Seacole’s autobiography from the perspective of material ecocriticism. The Black Atlantic origins of Seacole’s pharmacopoeia reveal a troubled, complex engagement with histories of medicine and cure, with local indigenous knowledges, and with the often-violent circulation of plants and people across the planet. Paying close attention to instances in
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When nature “punches back”: a new materialist reading of Alice Perrin’s East of Suez European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Éadaoin Agnew
ABSTRACT Alice Perrin’s East of Suez is a collection of short stories set in India. She immediately plunges her readers into an unfamiliar and intense world where nature is not a passive object onto which the human subject can impose its will. Instead, nature is persistently visceral, vibrant, and vital in ways that echo changing perceptions of the natural world, especially in relation to matter and
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The unity of thought and thing: collapsing mind-matter boundaries in the poetry and prose of Constance Naden European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Irmtraud Huber
ABSTRACT Hylo-idealism, the militantly atheist philosophical persuasion of Victorian poet and philosopher Constance Naden, attempted to combine what had long been thought irreconcilable: materialism with idealism, mind and matter, thought and thing. It did so radically by denying the difference between these dualistic terms. This paper explores the implications of this theory as it was developed in
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Experiencing textures: the materiality of illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins’s No Name European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Anja Hartl
ABSTRACT This article introduces texture as a key category of material analysis in Victorian literature and culture. Challenging distinctions between inside and outside structures, texture offers not only a complex, multi-layered understanding of material surfaces but also provides aesthetic and interpretive tools for rendering and analysing matter in literary and cultural representations. Drawing
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“Stimulated by these agents to vigorous action”: the language of suntanning and materiality of skin in Victorian culture European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Charlotte Mathieson
ABSTRACT This paper explores the materiality of skin as it is figured and re-figured through sunburn and suntanning descriptions in nineteenth-century culture. In nineteenth-century literary representations, the suntanned skin of white, British subjects is depicted through a rich array of terminology attending not only to the transformation of colour but also to the surface texture of the skin. This
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The unrealised potential of Robert Browning’s “Gold Hair: A Legend of Pornic” European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Heather Hind
ABSTRACT This article explores a hitherto neglected context of Robert Browning’s “Gold Hair” (1864), analysing the poem in relation to the tradition of “hair harvests” in Brittany, France, as well as the broader contexts of the hair trade and hairwork in the nineteenth century. In doing so, it makes a case for reading the textual evocation of hair in the poem literally to trace a cultural shift towards
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Disseminating knowledge: the effects of digitalised academic discourse on language, genre and identity European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Rosa Lorés, Giuliana Diani
ABSTRACT In this introduction to the special issue Disseminating knowledge: The effects of digitalised academic discourse in language, genre and identity, the authors discuss the impact that digital technologies and the Web have had on academia. They show how this attests to interrelations between new digital platforms of knowledge creation and dissemination and their use within discourse communities
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Multimodal metadiscourse in digital academic journals on linguistics, engineering and medicine European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 María Luisa Carrió-Pastor
ABSTRACT The main objectives of this study are, first, to analyse the interactive metadiscourse devices used in engineering, medicine and linguistics and the identities represented; second, to identify the visual metadiscourse elements employed in the three identities constructed in the three specific settings and, finally, to classify and compare the multimodal metadiscourse used to cohere the different
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Managing discipline and culture-specific knowledge for digitalised, open-access academic discourse: interactive metadiscourse in economics and law research articles European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Girolamo Tessuto
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of interactive metadiscourse in a representative corpus of digitalised, open access social science empirical research articles from the Economics and Law disciplines. Both distributional and functional analyses of interactive metadiscourse resources support a continuum of qualitative and quantitative empirical research analysis methods as necessary to regulate
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How does digital context influence interaction in large live online lectures? The case of English-medium instruction European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Mercedes Querol-Julián
ABSTRACT This paper examines the evolving genre of university lectures. It focuses on synchronous online lectures. The aim of the study is to shed some light on how interaction between teacher and students unfolds in large English-medium instruction (EMI) lectures in the digital context. A qualitative multimodal microanalysis of an episode of interaction was performed from an (inter)action multimodal
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Medical video abstracts and their subgenres: a phase-based approach to the detection of generic structure patterns European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Francesca Coccetta
ABSTRACT In recent years, digital platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and ResearchGate have broadened the range of genres used in specialised knowledge dissemination. This paper focuses on the Video Abstract (VA), a four-to-five-minute presentation of what lies behind the production of a specific research article (RA). This emergent genre transcends the confines of the RA allowing researchers to reinterpret
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Representing academic identities in email: content and structure of Automatic Signatures European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Sara Gesuato, Francesca Bianchi
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the automatic email signatures (ASs) of 200 academics. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of the ASs reveal that they are often written in one language, and only occasionally in two, English being a frequent choice. The ASs contain information with a primarily identificatory function, and occasionally with a promotional and socialising function. Despite the absence of
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A window to the world: visual design and research visibility of European research projects’ homepages European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Isabel Corona
ABSTRACT Websites, as an internet product, provide us with a multimedia content: they combine written text, images, audio, video, and hyperlinks. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the ways content is organised through design and the semiotic resources that are actually put to use by the European research groups in their homepages as a means of facilitating visibility of their work.
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‘In this post, I argue that…’: constructing argumentative discourse in scholarly law blog posts European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Giuliana Diani
ABSTRACT This study is based on the analysis of scholarly law blog posts written by British and American law professors commenting on legal cases relating to US and UK court decisions. The aim is to investigate how law professor bloggers construct their argumentative discourse while communicating with their scholarly legal community. The analysis reveals interesting argumentative strategies and language
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University research blogs: constructing identity through language and images European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Renáta Tomášková
ABSTRACT Drawing upon Erving Goffman’s concept of identity and its contemporary applications in the analyses of blogs, this study explores the practices bloggers use to construct their identities in research blogs accessible through university websites. The study focuses both on verbal as well as non-verbal strategies and their combinations, i.e. the interplay of words and images in the posts. The
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Celebrating feminist responses to populist politics European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-08-02
(2021). Celebrating feminist responses to populist politics. European Journal of English Studies: Vol. 25, Feminist Responses to Populist Politics, pp. 111-112.
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Feminist responses to populist politics European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-08-02
ABSTRACT Given our situatedness as political subjects of knowledge — as activists and scholars from Southern Europe — we have mapped out in this issue some feminist responses to populism. This issue discusses diverse transfeminist and feminist political groups and ideas, and talks about feminisms as a constellation of accounts of politics, practices, knowledges, and experiences. Although it is beyond
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The re/production of a (white) people: confronting Italian nationalist populism as a gender and race issue European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-08-02
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to inquiry nationalistic populism in Italy, using an intersectional perspective - feminist and postcolonial - and proposing some possible articulations between feminist and racial struggles as a response to the contemporary advance of the racist and misogynist far-right. Using the theoretical frame of Critical Studies on Whiteness (Giuliani 2013), the hypothesis
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Transfeminist politics and populist counterattacks in Italy European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-08-02
ABSTRACT The article examines the Italian political sphere in order to highlight how populist discourses are, among other things, a reaction to feminist and transfeminist practices and theories. The article begins by examining the emergence of right-wing populist discourses and their link to the reproduction of a hegemonic masculinity and the patriarchal family. Then it analyses several discourses
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Owning Gilead: franchising feminism through Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-08-02
ABSTRACT Margaret Atwood’s most famous dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), is one of those stories whose message seems to carry across the ages. The hyperreal patriarchy-as-terror-regime that The Handmaid’s Tale portrays has become a well-known shorthand in feminist protest culture. Its presence became even more prominent in response to Donald Trump’s 2016 election, and its visibility as a
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Intra-mat-extuality: feminist resilience within contemporary literature European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-08-02
ABSTRACT Neoliberalism is traversing socio-cultural and political discourses across the globe. In the feminist movement, it is contributing to a paradoxical dance where feminism’s massification is resulting in a loss of values and radicalism as a social justice movement. In this article, I argue that a reconfiguration of the definition of the literary object can serve as a strategic tool to break through
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Strange tropes of salvation: populist rhetoric and violence against women in Croatia European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-08-02
ABSTRACT The article revolves around notions of feminism and populism in the contemporary Croatian context. It analyses the domestic celebrity feminism initiative and the populist discourse some Croatian political figures employ. The structural similarity of the two public examples of rhetoric mentioned is correlated with the testimonial discourse of gender violence survivors. The comparative interpretation
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Rebel bodies: feminism as resistance in the Catalan pro-independence left European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-08-02
ABSTRACT This article discusses the political potentialities of embodied feminist resistance in a nationalist setting like contemporary Catalonia. It strives to provide a better understanding of the body-gender-nation assemblage and pave the way for different formulas of resistance. I study how feminist nationalism in the Catalan pro-independence left opposes far-right populism through embodiment (rebel
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Catherine Belsey European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Greta Olson
(2021). Catherine Belsey. European Journal of English Studies: Vol. 25, Brexit and Academia, pp. iii-iii.
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Brexit and academia: a satyr play where exit prevails voice European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Sibylle Baumbach, Andreas Maurer
ABSTRACT This introduction to the special issue Brexit and Academia sketches some of the key challenges for academia that emerged from Brexit. Based on a brief overview of the current state of the withdrawal and the trade agreements, we reflect upon the consequences of Brexit on transnational research, academic mobility, and research funding. We discuss the role and function of Euroscepticism for understanding
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Brexit and scientific research? European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Brian Foster
ABSTRACT This paper looks into the likely effects of Brexit on scientific research in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Although mention is made of the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, these will only become clear with time. After a reminder about what science actually is, I describe a framework for the debate on Brexit and research. I sketch an outline of the best possible outcome of this process
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Academic mobility after Brexit: Erasmus and the UK post-2020 European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Stefan Zotti
ABSTRACT Universities in the UK share the long common history of cooperation and mobility with the other European universities and are indispensable contributors to the European history of ideas. However, the Brexit substantially changes the established ways of cooperation in the framework of the EU’s main education programme Erasmus+. How will academic mobility and cooperation develop under the new
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Lost in the noise? Narrative (re)presentation of higher education and research during the Brexit process in the UK European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Monika Brusenbauch Meislová
ABSTRACT The article investigates how the considerations on higher education and research have been narratively represented in a public domain in the process of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. Having adopted the general orientation of the discourse-historical approach to discourse analysis, the study surveys the narrative (re)presentation of research and higher education issues
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Interfering in Brexit: responsibility, representation, and the ‘meaningful vote’ that wasn’t European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Calvin Duggan
ABSTRACT This paper is an exploration into the phenomenon of Brexit, and how to approach it from the perspective of the critical humanities. Following calls by Edward Said and Lawrence Grossberg to cross the border between political science and cultural studies, this paper takes Karen Barad’s agential realist approach to rethinking responsibility as response-ability and diffractively reads it alongside
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Internationalisation, Brexit, and the EU academic system: a case study in Austria European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Veronika Riedl, Helmut Staubmann
ABSTRACT The withdrawal negotiations after the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU) have fuelled discussions concerning the expected repercussions on higher education and research in Europe and call for discussing Brexit against the backdrop of internationalisation and the role of the UK in the European higher education and research landscape. When analysing Brexit as a counter
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The human component in social media and fake news: the performance of UK opinion leaders on Twitter during the Brexit campaign European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Maximilian Höller
ABSTRACT Ever since David Cameron announced the UK’s EU referendum in February 2016, discussions about Fake News during the Brexit campaign have been thriving and sparking debates on the role of social media in the run-up to Brexit. So far, research on this topic has mainly focused on the automatic spread of false information, through bots, for example. Building on the assumption that political leaders
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What’s the problem with Brexit? Notes from the middle of Britain’s crisis European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Gabriel Popham
ABSTRACT The Brexit referendum was experienced as a dramatic moment of rupture by millions of people who voted to remain in the European Union. This article argues that the period of uncertainty that came after the referendum was also a highly generative period for new political projects. By following the fluid, dynamic and multi-faceted articulation of Brexit as an issue of public concern – that is
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Neo-Victorian negotiations of hospitality: an introduction European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Rosario Arias
ABSTRACT This introduction to the special issue Neo-Victorian Negotiations of Hostility, Empathy, and Hospitality provides a contextual overview of the concept of hospitality, focusing on Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, as well as on other critics such as Tracy McNulty, Paul Ricoeur and Richard Kearney, who have greatly contributed to the development of the notion. Hospitality involves crossing
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Neo-Victorianism’s inhospitable hospitality: a case study of Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Marie-Luise Kohlke
ABSTRACT The Long Nineteenth Century has proven exceedingly hospitable to creative artists’ historical re-imaginings. Yet the tendency of neo-Victorian works to focus on the nineteenth century’s darker traumatic aspects troubles conceptualisations of ideal hospitality’s crucial link with ethics. This article explores what I term neo-Victorianism’s curious ‘inhospitable hospitality,’ using Michel Faber’s
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“Swallow up me”: hosts, guests and queer hospitality in Sarah Waters’ Affinity, Fingersmith, and Fingersmith fan fiction European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Alice M. Kelly
ABSTRACT Throughout Sarah Waters’ neo-Victorian novels, the roles of hosting and visitation are rewritten by the queer desires of her lesbian characters. From Margaret Prior’s queer turn as the “Lady Visitor” of Millbank prison in Affinity, to the erotic convergence of hosts and guests in Fingersmith, the orthodox roles of Victorian hospitality – so essential to the construction of the boundaries that
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“Doomed to a kind of double consciousness”: treacherous hospitality and the inversion of tradition in A.S. Byatt’s “Morpho Eugenia” European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Roberta Gefter Wondrich
ABSTRACT A.S. Byatt’s “Morpho Eugenia” marks a significant moment in the consideration of (narrative) hospitality in neo-Victorian fiction. It expands on the concerns of neo-Victorianism by foregrounding the theme of hospitality in discourses that are central to the Victorian novel and to contemporary re-interpretations of Victorian culture. Among these are the trope of the visit to the family house
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Poetic hospitality: dramatic monologue as a neo-Victorian, post-modern genre European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Eleonora Natalia Ravizza
ABSTRACT The ever-increasing contemporary interest in the Victorian Age is testified to by a growing number of works engaging with the re-reading, re-writing, and revising of the long nineteenth century. This interest parallels a tendency to identify the Victorian literary tradition solely with the novel. By contrast, this essay focuses on Victorian and neo-Victorian poetry, arguing that issues of
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The politics of museal hospitality: Sonia Boyce’s neo-Victorian takeover in Six Acts European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Ana Cristina Mendes
ABSTRACT Museums and their painstakingly curated constructions of history are increasingly being scrutinised for their heteronormative, androcentric and decisively white biases, often through museum interventions. Based on an understanding of museal hospitality as the constantly-shifting laws that regulate access to Britain’s prestigious exhibition spaces (and the intersections of these spaces with
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Decentring commemorations: literary, cultural, historical and political celebrations across and beyond the British Isles European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Céline Sabiron, Jeremy Tranmer
ABSTRACT In this introduction to the issue Decentring Commemorations: Literary, Cultural, Historical and Political Celebrations across and beyond the British Isles, the authors give an overview of recent developments in the forms taken by official – sometimes politically motivated – commemorations and of the appearance of new – often more challenging and subversive – types of commemorations engaged
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Commemorating Britishness during the centennial of the First World War: a comparative analysis of political commemorative speeches in Northern Ireland and in Scotland European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Nolwenn Rousvoal
ABSTRACT Jeffrey Donaldson, the DUP MP for Lagan Valley, told Westminster on June 26th, 2014: “The future of Ireland was shaped not on the streets of Dublin in 1916, but on the muddy, blood-soaked battlefields of the Western front.” Two years later, Brexit negotiations started. These two seemingly unrelated events have strong implications for the definition of Britishness in the 21st century since
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Spanish Civil War commemorations in Northern Ireland, The Republic of Ireland and Spain: political, spatial and generational relations between Irish anti-fascists and Spanish historical memory activists European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Daniel Meharg
ABSTRACT This article attempts to analyse the distinctive nature of the commemorations of the Spanish Civil War that have been taking place in the North and the Republic of Ireland, and the partnerships of the memorial groups with Spanish correspondents. Using press archives and interviews, I argue that the commemorations are part of a delayed process of recovery of Ireland’s historical memory of people
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A temple to transnational queerness: the politics of commemorating Oscar Wilde European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Colton Valentine
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a noted divergence between academic and commemorative treatments of Oscar Wilde. Both have placed the transnational and queer dimensions of Wilde’s identity at the fore, but scholars have also emphasised its orientalist and imperialist facets, while artists and devotees has pared down those less palatable qualities. This paper takes one tribute – Peter McGough and David
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Commemorating Shakespeare(s) across the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and France from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first centuries European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Joachim Frenk
ABSTRACT Commemorations of William Shakespeare have always been multimedial ideological constructs with particular aims and purposes in different cultures and contexts at different times. Shakespeare commemorations have been instrumental in the creation of the cultural capital that is attached to Shakespeare today. This essay traces some significant Shakespeare commemorations since the eighteenth century
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Commemorating Mme de Staël and Jane Austen across Britain and France European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Antonella Braida
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the transnational commemorations and on the literary canonisation of Jane Austen and Madame de Staël in France and Britain. Adopting Dović and Elgason’s model for the study of national literary canons, significant analogies are found in the evolution of the two writers’ reception from 1817 to 2017. Both authors’ works were translated soon after their publication: however
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Glocal narratives of resilience European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Michael Basseler
(2020). Glocal narratives of resilience. European Journal of English Studies: Vol. 24, ’Decentering Commemorations’: Literary, Cultural, Historical and Political Commemorations across and beyond the British Isles, pp. 192-195.
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The experimental imagination: literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Mujadad Zaman
(2020). The experimental imagination: literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment. European Journal of English Studies: Vol. 24, ’Decentering Commemorations’: Literary, Cultural, Historical and Political Commemorations across and beyond the British Isles, pp. 195-196.
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Decentring commemorations: literary, cultural, historical and political celebrations across and beyond the British Isles European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Céline Sabiron, Jeremy Tranmer
ABSTRACT In this introduction to the issue Decentring Commemorations: Literary, Cultural, Historical and Political Celebrations across and beyond the British Isles, the authors give an overview of recent developments in the forms taken by official – sometimes politically motivated – commemorations and of the appearance of new – often more challenging and subversive – types of commemorations engaged
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Commemorating Britishness during the centennial of the First World War: a comparative analysis of political commemorative speeches in Northern Ireland and in Scotland European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Nolwenn Rousvoal
ABSTRACT Jeffrey Donaldson, the DUP MP for Lagan Valley, told Westminster on June 26th, 2014: “The future of Ireland was shaped not on the streets of Dublin in 1916, but on the muddy, blood-soaked battlefields of the Western front.” Two years later, Brexit negotiations started. These two seemingly unrelated events have strong implications for the definition of Britishness in the 21st century since
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Spanish Civil War commemorations in Northern Ireland, The Republic of Ireland and Spain: political, spatial and generational relations between Irish anti-fascists and Spanish historical memory activists European Journal of English Studies (IF 0.694) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Daniel Meharg
ABSTRACT This article attempts to analyse the distinctive nature of the commemorations of the Spanish Civil War that have been taking place in the North and the Republic of Ireland, and the partnerships of the memorial groups with Spanish correspondents. Using press archives and interviews, I argue that the commemorations are part of a delayed process of recovery of Ireland’s historical memory of people