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Annotating the Everyday in a Modernist Scholarly Edition (2020)
Journal Article
Thomson, T. (2020). Annotating the Everyday in a Modernist Scholarly Edition. Modernist Cultures, 15(1), 92-109. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2020.0281

This article interrogates current approaches to the annotation of scholarly editions in order to reframe annotation practice within an emerging ‘new modernist editing’. Using the Broadview edition of Dorothy Richardson’s The Tunnel as a case study to... Read More about Annotating the Everyday in a Modernist Scholarly Edition.

Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism (2019)
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Lyall, S. (2019). Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism. Modernist Cultures, 14(2), 213-235. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2019.0251

Germany has been epitomised in the twentieth century as Britain’s main rival and adversary. Yet Scottish modernists were influenced by Germany and German-language modernism to think more internationally about their nation and work, a cultural encount... Read More about Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism.

Introduction: War and Memory (2018)
Journal Article
Frayn, A., & Phillips, T. (2018). Introduction: War and Memory. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 11(3), 181-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2018.1490075

This introduction situates the articles in this journal issue within recent scholarship about war and memory. The plethora of available terminology is addressed, tracing memory studies back to the rediscovery of Maurice Halbwachs’s theories of colle... Read More about Introduction: War and Memory.

Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930 (2018)
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Frayn, A. (2018). Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 11(3), 192-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2018.1490072

The way that the First World War would be remembered was yet to be solidified in the years immediately after the Armistice and peace treaties. Using key case studies from the years 1918 to 1930 by combatant authors Gilbert Frankau, Ernest Raymond, C... Read More about Social Remembering, Disenchantment and First World War Literature, 1918–1930.

The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun (2014)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2014). The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun. Comparative American Studies, 12(3), 173-189. https://doi.org/10.1179/1477570014Z.00000000081

While the initial literary and cultural response to 9/11 consisted mostly of domestic narratives of trauma and mourning that avoided explicit political discourse, narrative representations of Hurricane Katrina, from the beginning, have been highly po... Read More about The Aggregation of Political Rhetoric in Zeitoun.

‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway (2012)
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Schwan, A. (2013). ‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway. Women's History Review, 22(1), 148-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2012.724917

This article discusses the life and imprisonment of the largely unknown middle-class artist and suffrage activist Katie Gliddon and analyzes her extensive prison diary, secretly written and drawn in her copy of The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shel... Read More about ‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway.

Joseph O'Neil's Netherland and 9/11 Fiction (2012)
Journal Article
Keeble, A. (2012). Joseph O'Neil's Netherland and 9/11 Fiction. European Journal of American Culture, 31(1), 55-71. https://doi.org/10.1386/ejac.31.1.55_1

This article argues that Joseph O’Neil’s Netherland (2008) self-consciously addresses some of the problematic aspects of the emerging canon of ‘9/11 fiction’. Netherland subverts one of the dominant thematic rubrics of the canon, marriage and relatio... Read More about Joseph O'Neil's Netherland and 9/11 Fiction.

Carnivalising the future: a new approach to theorising childhood and adulthood in science fiction for young readers (2004)
Journal Article
Sambell, K. (2004). Carnivalising the future: a new approach to theorising childhood and adulthood in science fiction for young readers. Lion and the Unicorn, 28(2), 247-261

The comic narrative strategies that Reeve uses in Mortal Engines set it apart from the bulk of deeply serious, starkly pessimistic science fiction for young readers. Sambell illustrates how Reeve eschews the oppressive admonitory tone of the dystopia... Read More about Carnivalising the future: a new approach to theorising childhood and adulthood in science fiction for young readers.