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Language, labour and ideology Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540–1800) (2022)
Book Chapter
Whitt, R. J. (2022). Language, labour and ideology Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540–1800). In T. Hiltunen, & I. Taavitsainen (Eds.), Corpus Pragmatic Studies on the History of Medical Discourse (179-202). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.330.08whi

Writings on midwifery and women’s medicine related to childbirth reflect the many changes affecting this field during the Early Modern period, which in turn reflect changes in epistemological values Through the lens of critical discourse analysis, th... Read More about Language, labour and ideology Constructing epistemologies of childbirth in the first three centuries of English-language midwifery texts (1540–1800).

Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships (2022)
Book Chapter
Vilar-Lluch, S. (2022). Social reaction to a new health threat: The perception of the Covid-19 health crisis by British and Spanish readerships. In A. Musolff, R. Breeze, K. Kondo, & S. Vilar-Lluch (Eds.), Pandemic and Crisis Discourse: Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy (185-206). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232730.ch-010

Henry James "In The Minor Key" (2021)
Book Chapter
Scott, R. (2021). Henry James "In The Minor Key". In L. Buonomo (Ed.), The Sound of James. The Aural Dimension in Henry James’s Work. Papers from the 8th International Conference of the Henry James Society. Trieste, 4-6 July 2019 (17-34). Trieste, Italy: Edizioni Università di Trieste

Legal custom & Lex Castrensis?: using law and literature to navigate the North-Sea neighbourhood in the late Viking Age (2021)
Book Chapter
Ruiter, K. (2021). Legal custom & Lex Castrensis?: using law and literature to navigate the North-Sea neighbourhood in the late Viking Age. In D. H. Steinforth, & C. C. Rozier (Eds.), Britain and its neighbours: cultural contacts and exchanges in Medieval and early modern Europe. London: Routledge

In his Lex Castrensis, the thirteenth-century Danish writer Sven Aggesen tells the story of the creation of a law that he attributes to Knútr inn ríki (Cnut the Great) as a means of governing his substantial military following of retainers, known as... Read More about Legal custom & Lex Castrensis?: using law and literature to navigate the North-Sea neighbourhood in the late Viking Age.

Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography (2021)
Book Chapter
Jordan, S. (2021). Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography. In Writing Remains New Intersections of Archaeology, Literature and Science (95-116). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350109490.ch-004

The chapter examines the interdependencies between fiction and archaeology through the analysis of psychogeography, a broad and ever expanding genre that mixes archaeological and historical fact with fiction. Critical to this analysis is an understan... Read More about Creative Facticity and 'Hyper-Archaeology': the Spatial and Performative Textualities of Psychogeography.

“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.

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

Discourse and health communication (2020)
Book Chapter
Brookes, G., & Hunt, D. (2020). Discourse and health communication. In Corpus discourse and mental health. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names (2020)
Book Chapter
Carroll, J., & Baker, J. (2020). The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names. In L. Alexander James, & L. Ryan (Eds.), Land of the English Kin: Studies of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Barbara Yorke (112–153). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004421899

Bede famously traced the origins of the Anglo-Saxons back to three of the strongest Germanic “tribes”: They came from three very powerful Germanic tribes [de tribus Germaniae populis fortioribus], the Saxons [Saxonibus], Angles [Anglis], and Jute... Read More about The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names.

Adaptations: Commemoration and Contemporary Irish Theatre (2020)
Book Chapter
Moran, J. (2020). Adaptations: Commemoration and Contemporary Irish Theatre. In E. Falci, & P. Reynolds (Eds.), Irish Literature in Transition: 1980-2020 (152-167). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108564373.011

During the build-up to the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016, the Irish media reported upon, and helped to generate, a number of controversies about the planned commemorations. For example, in the wake of the Queen of England’s visit to Ireland... Read More about Adaptations: Commemoration and Contemporary Irish Theatre.

Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga (2020)
Book Chapter
Ruiter, K. (2020). Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga. In Narrating Law and Laws of Narration in Medieval Scandinavia, (171-184). De Gruyter

A common thread running through the present volume is the consistent highlighting of the flexibility, negotiation, and pragmatism that is so apparent in narrated descriptions of law, legal norms, and legal practice in the medieval Scandinavian milieu... Read More about Berserks Behaving Badly: Manipulating Normative Expectations in Eyrbyggja saga.