Browsing English (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Illustrations from the Wellcome Library William Winstanley's pestilential poesies in "The Christians refuge: or heavenly antidotes against the plague in this time of generall contagion to which is added the charitable physician (1665)"
(PubMed Central, 2011)During the Great Plague of London (1665), William Winstanley veered from his better known roles as arbiter of success and failure in his works of biography or as a comic author under the pseudonym Poor Robin, and instead ... -
Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning's Fictions of War
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Introduction to European Women in Early Modern
(2017)Introduction to the Special Issue of EMLS, entitled "European Women in Early Modern English Drama". -
Ireland, Revolution, and the English Modernist Imagination
(Oxford University Press, 2022)This book asks how English authors of the early to mid-twentieth century responded to the nationalist revolution in neighbouring Ireland in their work and explores this response as an expression of anxieties about, and ... -
The Irish Masque at Court (1613)
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Managing Uncertainty in the Humanities: Digital and Analogue Approaches
(ACM, 2018)This paper takes a high-level view of both the sources and status of uncertainty in humanities research and the attributes a digital system would ideally have. It draws upon both the experience of a number of digital ... -
'Modernity and Nineteenth-Century Ireland: the making of a "national reader"'
(Rodopi, 2014)This paper examines ‘national reading’ in nineteenth-century Ireland in relation to concepts of Irish modernity. Through William St Clair’s framework of the ‘reading nation’, I assess historical descriptions of reading ... -
Namelessness from Artaud to Beckett
(Brill, 2019)Abstract After a period of electroshock therapy, Antonin Artaud claimed to have been able to regain his name and sense of self. The dehiscence of name and identification is reprised in Artaud’s final work, the radio ... -
National Identity and Satire
(Oxford University Press, 2019)The eighteenth century was a period when ambitious Irish dramatists, particularly those based in London, deployed satire as a means of publicly displaying Irish improvement and Enlightenment. The Stage Irishman evolved ... -
On the Edge of Chaos: Space and Power in Maria Edgeworth's "The Grateful Negro" (1804)
(Cambridge Unversity Press, 2022)‘The Grateful Negro’ (1804) is one of Maria Edgeworth’s less well-known children’s stories. Set on a Jamaican plantation, it concerns the differing attitudes of two white plantation owners, Mr Edwards and Mr Jefferies, ... -
Open Minds and Open Learning in the 'Cosmopolitan' Internet
(2012)The promise of technology, in particular of the internet, was that access to information would become demography blind. But for all of the successes the global web of information has demonstrated to us, has it really ... -
Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
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Reading Rooms: Fostering Constructive and Inclusive Dialogue Between Communities
(TARA, 2022)This report provides the findings from an inter-disciplinary project that sought to investigate and advance the potential of shared reading groups to promote purposeful and meaningful dialogue among Northern Ireland interface ... -
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Review of The Rogue Narrative and Irish Fiction, 1660-1790 by Joe Lines
(2022)There was a time when Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent, first published in 1800, was considered the “first truly Irish novel.” Back in 1988, when the critic James Cahalan made this claim, the words “first,” “Irish,” ... -
Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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Screaming for Champions
(2022)This short piece reflects on screaming and female rage in response to pregnancy and childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic. This piece reflects on my daughter's expert screaming and my own (wasted) efforts trying to pacify ... -
Soft Skills in Hard Places: the changing face of DH training in European research infrastructures
(2017)[Extract from the Introduction] Research Infrastructures are becoming an increasingly distinct presence in the landscape of the digital humanities, creating unique research ecosystems that interact with, but remain ...
