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“Here’s looking at you, kid.’’ From Big Brother to Big Brother: teenagers under surveillance (2012)
Book Chapter
Sambell, K. (2012). “Here’s looking at you, kid.’’ From Big Brother to Big Brother: teenagers under surveillance. In C. Ní Bhroin, & P. Kennon (Eds.), What do we tell the children? : critical essays on children's literature (182-195). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This chapter discusses the ways in which the young adult author, Melvin Burgess, engages with the theme of surveillance. It will focus on his 2006 novel, Sara's Face, arguing that this novel critically explores dicsourses regarding teenage girls' re... Read More about “Here’s looking at you, kid.’’ From Big Brother to Big Brother: teenagers under surveillance.

‘Bless the Gods for my pencils and paper’: Katie Gliddon's prison diary, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the suffragettes at Holloway (2012)
Journal Article
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.