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Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech (2020)
Journal Article
Royan, N. (2020). Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 64, 61-86. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.NMS.5.127657

The representation of women is often used as a critical touchstone for the re-assessment of many medieval texts: this is also true of discussions of Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid and Gavin Douglas’s Eneados. This essay compares these po... Read More about Cresseid, Dido and the Power of Speech.

Writing Black Scotland (2020)
Book
Jackson, J. (2020). Writing Black Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Writing Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness. The book reads blackness in Scottish writing from the 1970s to the early 2000s, a period of history defined... Read More about Writing Black Scotland.

The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred (2020)
Book
Baker, J., & Carroll, J. (2020). The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred. Nottingham: English Place-Name Society

his Part covers an area of approximately 140 square miles in the south of the county, between the Franchise of Wenlock and the Hundred of Stottesdon to the east and the Hundred of Clun to the west. The introduction provides an overview of information... Read More about The Place-Names of Shropshire. Part 8, Overs Hundred, the Borough of Ludlow, the southern part of Munslow Hundred and the Stowe Division of Purslow Hundred.

“Totaled City”: The Postdigital Textualities of Ben Lerner’s 10:04 (2020)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (2021). “Totaled City”: The Postdigital Textualities of Ben Lerner’s 10:04. In A. Evans, & K. Kramer (Eds.), Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55961-8

The chapter argues that Ben Lerner’s 10:04 is a response to the new ontological condition of metamodernism. Not only is 10:04 deliberately playful in its mash-up of fiction and autobiography; it also encapsulates extreme levels of anxiety concerning... Read More about “Totaled City”: The Postdigital Textualities of Ben Lerner’s 10:04.

The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective (2020)
Journal Article
Evans, J. (2020). The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 53(3), 436-451. https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-8624624

The article identifies a shift in J. G. Ballard’s work from a preoccupation with the individual to a preoccupation with the collective. It reads Ballard’s late fiction as being part of a wider turn in the culture of Western, neoliberal states toward... Read More about The Mob: J. G. Ballard's Turn to the Collective.

Historiography and life writing (2020)
Book Chapter
Harrison, A. (2020). Historiography and life writing. In C. Brown, & S. Reid (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to D. H. Lawrence and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press