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The Artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937): The Tragedy of Roger Fry’s Wife English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Linda Elisabeth LaPinta
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Rachel Willie
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Beowulf: Translation and Commentary English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Łukasz Neubauer
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Writing the World in Early Medieval England English Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Leonard Neidorf
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–1843 English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Sarah Burdett
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590–1660 English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Paul Dean
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Jordan S. Sly
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Wealth and the Material World in the Old English Alfredian Corpus English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Nicole Guenther Discenza
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Ben Clarke
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A Corpus-Based Investigation of the Word Football in Contemporary Spoken English: Linguistic Profile and Cultural Values in 1994 and 2014 English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Ljubica Leone
The sport of football has played a prominent role in British society since 1863 (Russell 1999).1 The increasing popularity of this sport has stimulated research focused on the language of football ...
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“What Is a Man?”: Disability, Domesticity, and Imperialism in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Mengyuan An
Following the mode of cultural studies, this essay focuses on Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, a story that has been understudied, for her delineation of masculinity in the ...
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Law as Practice: Hermeneutic Insights into Legal Issues in British Civil Courts from Ian McEwan’s The Children Act English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Yang Kang, Liu Humin
Ian McEwan’s The Children Act serves as a profound narrative inquiry into the intricate legal challenges of British civil court practice. This paper responds to the scholarly omission of the law’s ...
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A History of Irish Literature and the Environment English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Eoin Flannery
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Colleen English
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Probabilistic Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation in World Englishes English Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Christian Mair
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Wayne George Deakin
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 1, 2024)
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Analogical Changes in the Nominal Morphology of Owun’s gloss to the Rushworth Gospels English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Nieves Rodríguez-Ledesma
This article offers a quantitative study of the genitive and nominative/accusative plural inflections in Owun’s gloss (Rushworth2) to the Rushworth Gospels in comparison with Aldred’s gloss to the ...
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“Nothing’s Forever”: Destruction, Creation, Connection, and Miltonic Influence in Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Russell M. Hillier
The article proposes that engagement with John Milton’s Paradise Lost in Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris furnishes a clue to comprehending the duology. These twin volumes present a...
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Criminally Fat: Reframing the homme fatal in Vera Caspary’s Laura (1943) English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Ffion Davies
The spectre of queer men features prominently in the traditions of both film noir and hard-boiled crime fiction. Like the femme fatale, these “deadly sissies” (Russo 70) are part of a much broader ...
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In Memoriam – Frances Austin (1935–2023) English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 1, 2024)
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The Making of a Shakespeare Critic: Partial English Translations of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre in the Long Nineteenth Century English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Carmen Reisinger
Wilhelm’s reflections in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1794/95) significantly influenced the history of Hamlet criticism. The belief that Goethe used his protagonist to present his own analyses was b...
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Edith Wharton’s Position on the Real in A Motor-Flight Through France: Arthur Schopenhauer and Aesthetic-Sublime Contemplation English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Valerie Smith
Edith Wharton's A Motor-Flight Through France, is not merely a collection of essays about trips through France; it is also a philosophical and experimental work about the “real” that engages with A...
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The 1930s: a decade of modern British fiction English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Matthew Taunton
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 1, 2024)
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Writing Orality: Australian Aboriginal Voices in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Xuehai Cui, Jiao Li
Australian Aboriginal stories have thrived for thousands of years through oral tradition and Aboriginal author Alexis Wright invokes this tradition in the construction of her novel Carpentaria. Thi...
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One Scribe or Two? On the Copying of Sir Gawayn and the Carl of Carlisle in NLW Brogyntyn ii.1 English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 María José Carrillo-Linares
National Library of Wales Brogyntyn ii.1 (Porkington 10) is a fifteenth-century miscellany copied by a considerable number of scribes, though there is no consensus on the exact number. In the copyi...
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The Politics of Education in Dorothy Richardson’s Dental Record Writings: The Struggle Over Schooling in the Modernist Literary Field English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Matthew Herzog
Dorothy Richardson is often posited as one of the originators of stream-of-consciousness style. However, she is less known for her non-fiction writing. This article examines a “comment” from Richar...
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Satire in Eighteenth-Century Medical Discourse: Elizabeth Nihell, Tobias Smollett and the Advent of Man-Midwifery English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Richard J. Whitt
This paper examines Tobias Smollett’s scathing assessment in the Critical Review of Elizabeth Nihell’s midwifery treatise, Treatise on the Art of Midwifery (1760), a polemic against the use of inst...
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The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ashim Dutta
Published in English Studies (Vol. 104, No. 8, 2023)
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“An Otter’s Temporary Resting Place”: Michael Longley’s Western Landscape English Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ying Zhou
This article discusses the western landscape in Michael Longley’s poems, a physical, imaginary, and aesthetic space that displays some of the most sustained tensions between self and other, the eco...
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The Myth of Family: Friendship and Sexual Impropriety in the Feminist Occult Grail Narratives of Mary Butts’s Armed with Madness (1928) English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Sue Terry
This article argues that in Armed with Madness Mary Butts proposes new options for successful living in the disaffected interwar years of the twentieth century, by adopting a counterintuitive moder...
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A Collostructional and Constructional Approach to the Transitive out of -ing Construction English Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Jungsoo Kim, Rok Sim
This paper investigates the so-called transitive out of -ing construction, characterised by the structure of NP subject + V1 + NP object + out of VP2[-ing] predicate with corpus data (e.g., I cheat...
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Interconnections between Art and Commerce: Literary Prizes, Readers, and the Reading Committee of the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933–1958) English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Deirdre F. Brady
This essay examines the interconnections between art and commerce that lie behind cultural production. Using the case study of the Irish Women Writers’ Club (1933–1958), it explores the political, ...
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“From the Editor’s Standpoint”: L.T. Meade, Alice Corkran, and Lessons on Authorship, Collaboration, and Competition English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Beth Rodgers
The Irish writers L.T. Meade and Alice Corkran were both editors of leading London-based girls’ periodicals in the 1890s, Atalanta and the Girl’s Realm, respectively. Although both periodicals and ...
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“Distinguished Irishwomen in London”: The Promotion of Professional Networks in Charlotte O'Conor Eccles' Journalism and Fiction English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Tara Giddens
Throughout much of her career, Irish journalist Charlotte O’Conor Eccles (1863–1911) promoted other Irish women and supported better rights for working women. Along with this support was Eccles’ be...
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Portrait of a Woman Writer: Friendship and Collaboration Between Jane Barlow and Sarah Purser English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Tricia Cusack
The article considers how women writers and artists in the patriarchal society of turn of the century Dublin connected with, and supported one another, through correspondence, salon culture and fem...
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Irish Women Writers and Their (Trans)National Networks: Making and Translating Local Colour Literature English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Marguérite Corporaal
Irish women’s local colour fiction should be analysed in relation to three levels of literary brokerage: dedication, reviewing, and translation. This becomes clear from the case studies of Jane Bar...
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The Women behind the Abbey: Dolly Robinson and Irish Theatrical Networks English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Nora Moroney
This paper revives the work and reputation of artist Dolly Robinson, focusing on her as a lynchpin of many cultural circles in Dublin from the 1920s to the 1940s. Drawing on the archive of Robinson...
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Gender Space and Collaboration Politics: Christine Longford’s The Furies (1933) English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Natasha Remoundou
In the context of intersectional gender economies, collaborative genealogies, and hierarchies of (in)visibility in theatre making, this inquiry turns to Christine Longford's little-known play-versi...
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Camp Comedy and “Submerged Trouble”: Molly Keane's Queer Collaborations English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Naoise Murphy
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Anglo-Irish writer Molly Keane embarked on a collaborative playwriting career with her close friend and co-author John Perry, facilitated by a network of gay men in Lond...
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Poet, Editor, Anarchist: Lola Ridge’s New York Networks English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Lucy Collins
Irish-born poet, Lola Ridge (1873–1941), was a dynamic figure in New York literary and anarchist circles of the early twentieth century. A talented poet, she invested time and energy in her creativ...
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Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers' Collaborations and Networks, 1880–1940 English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Kathryn Laing, Sinéad Mooney, Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin, Anna Pilz, Whitney Standlee, Julie Anne Stevens
Collaborations and networks are both the modus operandi and focus of investigation in this Special Issue on Irish women writers between 1880 and 1940. This introductory essay sets the scene for the...
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Women's Collaborative Literary Processes and Networks: Mary and Matilda Banim's Ireland English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Geraldine Brassil
This essay examines the literary and domestic networks of Mary (c 1847–1939) and Matilda (1842–1906) Banim, and the connections they forged on a personal level and in the wider world of publishing ...
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“All that I Am Craving Is the Talk”: Collaboration, Translation and Lady Gregory’s Workhouse Ward English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-20 James Little
Central to the collaborative dynamics of the Irish Revival, Lady Gregory had a particularly fruitful working relationship with Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde), whose plays she translated and, in m...
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Don Quixote, Benengeli and Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy English Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-09 María J. López
This article focuses on the central role of Don Quixote (1605, 1615) in J.M. Coetzee’s Jesus novels, arguing for the relevance of the fact that it is Benengeli, the fictional Moorish historian – an...
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Shakespeare and Textual Theory English Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Paul Dean
Published in English Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Revisiting the Pansies Notebook: New Approaches to D. H. Lawrence's Late Archives English Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Buxi Duan
ABSTRACT D. H. Lawrence completed several significant works concurrently during the last three years of his life (1928–1930), including the poetry collection Pansies. Though the three volumes of Poems of the comprehensive Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence offer valuable insight into Lawrence's verse-writing, this article underscores the importance of critically examining the materiality
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The Interplay of Dominant Empiricism and Residual Cartesianism in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance English Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Saeedeh Esmailzadeh, Maryam Soltan Beyad
In response to the supernatural occurrences in the Marquis’s castle, several characters of Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance adhere to the tenets of Lockean empiricism to interpret their sensory p...
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Implicit Meaning and Gender Ideologies in Interwar Good Housekeeping Magazine English Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Annalisa Federici
This essay adopts a Critical Stylistic approach to uncover the linguistic mechanisms of implicit, (counter-)ideological meaning in the female-targeted periodical Good Housekeeping during the interw...
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Women and Crowds in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Harkness English Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Chieko Ichikawa
Nineteenth-century literary representations of crowds in urban landscapes convey both the radical and revolutionary aspects of the working-class movement and the anti-modern aspects of chaos and co...
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Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England English Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Paul Dean
Published in English Studies (Vol. 104, No. 8, 2023)
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Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty-First Century Perspectives English Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Dominic Dean
Published in English Studies (Vol. 104, No. 8, 2023)
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Arden of Faversham English Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Paul Dean
Published in English Studies (Vol. 104, No. 7, 2023)
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Diachronic Developments of the Concessive Though-Fronting Construction in American English: A Corpus-Based Perspective English Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Jungsoo Kim, Okgi Kim
ABSTRACT This paper examines diachronic development patterns of the concessive though-fronting construction in American English, using corpus data. The findings of this study, on the one hand, show that the fronted expression has been dominantly an AdjP with a subject predicative complement function and a rather negative connotation, and that the major licensing verbs are linking verbs, which is in
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Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850–1895 English Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Andrew Mangham
Published in English Studies (Vol. 104, No. 8, 2023)
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What Kind of a Thing is a Middle English Lyric? English Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Thorlac Turville-Petre
Published in English Studies (Vol. 104, No. 7, 2023)
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Angels in America at the British National Theatre: Premiere, Revival and Transatlantic Legacy, 1993-2018 English Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Dirk Visser
Published in English Studies (Vol. 105, No. 1, 2024)
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Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature English Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Sara Norja
Published in English Studies (Vol. 104, No. 7, 2023)
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Erminda Rentoul Esler's “Physical” and “Virtual” Networks: Women's Activism, the Irish in London, and the Local-Colour Story English Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Giulia Bruna
This article illuminates the life and work of Irish-born novelist, short-story writer, and periodical columnist Erminda Rentoul Esler (1860?–1924), who lived and worked in London from the 1890s onw...
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Women Historians and Acknowledgments: Scholarly Collaboration as Expression of Authorial Self in Alice Stopford Green’s Histories, c. 1880–1916 English Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Elise Garritzen
Making historical knowledge is a social practice, and disciplinary etiquette encouraged Victorian historians to acknowledge their collaborators in publications. This essay argues that acknowledgmen...
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Representations of Terror and Horror in the Frontispieces to Thomas and Robert Hughes’s Gothic Chapbooks English Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Kwinten Van De Walle
Chapbooks are versatile print media that, more than any other print form, made available a wide variety of texts intended for popular reading to a broad and diverse readership. Gothic chapbooks or ...