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Social media poetics: The technological forms of alt lit poetry
(John Hopkins University Press, 2022-09)Poets on Twitter often use the medium for the purposes of publication and promotion. However, writers from the Alt Lit movement have used Twitter and other social media platforms for more creative purposes. Here, I examine ... -
Pressing pause: Critical reflections from the history of media studies
(TripleC, 2018-02-26)This article examines the history of the fraught relationship between the fields of media and journalism studies and the media industries in the US and UK contexts. In the US, journalism programmes were built on instituting ... -
Towards wide-scale adoption of open science practices: The role of open science communities
(Oxford University Press, 2021-07-03)Despite the increasing availability of Open Science (OS) infrastructure and the rise in policies to change behaviour, OS practices are not yet the norm. While pioneering researchers are developing OS practices, the majority ... -
The Judgment (and Women Problems) of Solomon in Greenes Vision (1592)
(Early Modern Literary Studies, 2022-12-22)Greenes Vision: Written at the Instant of His Death (1592), a work of mock authorial repentance, has often been read alongside a range of other ostensibly expiatory pieces that Robert Greene composed around the turn of the ... -
Trends and perspectives on digital platforms and digital t:elevision in Europe: Fragility and empowerment: Community television in the digital era.
(2022)The advent of television technologies has significantly restructured the context within which community television producers operate. Digital technologies have undercut “spectrum scarcity” arguments for limiting access to ... -
Book history and digital humanities in the long eighteenth century
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021)This article examines the current state of research at the intersections of book history and digital humanities within the field of eighteenth-century studies. It addresses the popular and intellectual origins of the nexus ... -
The (lost) tune of ‘Raging Love’ and its reverberations in Isabella Whitney’s Copy of a Letter
(SAGE Publications, 2020-03-30)This article argues that Isabella Whitney s verse epistles To Her Unconstant Lover and The Admonition in The Copy of a Letter (c. 1566 67) are enmeshed more thoroughly in the early modern English soundscape than previous ... -
Impregnable towers and pregnable maidens in early modern english drama
(Western Michigan University, Department of English, 2019)A young, marriageable, and implicitly pregnable woman s imprisonment in a purportedly impregnable tower (usually somewhere in Italy) is a recurrent motif in early modern English drama. Pertinent examples can be found in ... -
Speech, silence, and Shakespearean quotation in The Sounding (2017)
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-25)This article examines Catherine Eaton s The Sounding (2017). It uses the polarised critical interpretations that have emerged in response to Isabella s wordlessness in Act 5 of Shakespeare s Measure for Measure as a useful ... -
The cultural dynamics of reception
(Duke University Press, 2020-01-01)The cultural dynamics of reception are best understood as a reiterative process of reshaping and reframing. Reception as an object of critical study embraces first the history of how texts were read, disseminated, and ... -
Exile, pistols, and promised lands: Ibsen and Israeli modernist writers
(MDPI, 2019-09-17)Allusions to Henrik Ibsen's plays in the works of two prominent Israeli modernist writers, Amos Oz s autobiographical A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004) and David Grossman s The Zigzag Kid (1994) examined in the context ... -
‘Out of Proportion to the Small Loss’: Productivist agriculture in the farming novels of John McGahern and Halldór Laxness
(Edinburgh University Press, 2019-05)Ireland and Iceland, both (semi-)peripheral islands in relation to Europe's core hegemonic capitalism, once shared similar farming systems based on small holdings and rotational grazing. Today, however, agriculture looks ... -
Translating Ovid's Metamorphoses in Tudor balladry
(University of Chicago Press, 2019-06-05)This article provides the first sustained overview and analysis of the reception of Ovid s Metamorphoses in sixteenth-century English ballad culture. It highlights a significant tradition of translating materials from this ... -
Men, women, and not quite non-persons: derivatization in Roxana
(Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 2018)This article argues that Roxana exemplifies a peculiarly modern mode of “derivatization”: a form of “ontological reductionism” articulated by Ann J. Cahill in which individuals are diminished to “the reflection, projection, ... -
Ovidian retro-metamorphosis on the Elizabethan stage
(McMaster University Library Press and Becker Associates, 2018-11-02)Although Ovid dedicated his Metamorphoses to the subject of change, the vast majority of the corporeal alterations catalogued in this ancient Roman poem are singular, permanent transformations. In contrast, dramatists ... -
Diana, Dido, and The Fair Maid of Dunsmore: classical precursors, common tunes, and the question of consent in seventeenth-century balladry
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-24)The tragedy of Isabel of Dunsmore an English shepherd s daughter who commits suicide after being impregnated by a social superior is recounted in two similar, yet lyrically distinct seventeenth-century ballads: The ... -
Gower’s slothful Aeneas in Batman’s Christall Glasse of Christian Reformation
(Oxford University Press, 2014-08-01)ALTHOUGH early modern medievalisms have been the subject of considerable interest in recent scholarship, much work remains to be done on the literary reception and influence of John Gower’s only major vernacular work, ... -
Resurrecting Shakespeare's ghost plays
(Oxford University Press, 2018-09-04)This article draws attention to a group of remarkably similar novels published between 2003 and 2009: William Martin s Harvard Yard, Jennifer Lee Carrell s The Shakespeare Secret (also known as Interred with Their Bones), ... -
Arachne in Marlowe’s ‘Ad amicam corruptam’ (Amores 2.5)
(Oxford University Press, 2018-09-20)When, at the close of the sixteenth century, Christopher Marlowe’s rendition of Amores 2.5 posthumously appeared in All Ovids Elegies (the earliest vernacular translation of this work to have been published in Europe and ... -
The Jacobean Grand Tour: Early Stuart Travellers in Europe, Edward Chaney and Timothy Wilks. I.B. Tauris, London (2014)
(Elsevier, 2017-03-01)[No abstract available]