Outputs (60)

An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the origins of United States literature (2016)
Book Chapter

Emerson has long been held to be the well-spring of American literary originality. In this chapter I outline Emerson's own ideas of originality, detailing in particular how they relate to his New England context and his reading of model English Renai... Read More about An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the origins of United States literature.

Race and biology (2016)
Book Chapter

The period 1880-1920 saw the emergence and then the qualified effacing of powerful discourses of racial essentialism and biological determinism: it was a period profoundly influenced, even mesmerized, by the authority of Darwinian science. This chapt... Read More about Race and biology.

How to Teach Entrepreneurship to Communication and Creative Industries Students (2016)
Book

This handbook has been written as a result of work undertaken in the "CreBiz - Business Development Laboratory Study Module for Creative Industries" project. The objective of creating the study module is to enhance the business knowledge of undergrad... Read More about How to Teach Entrepreneurship to Communication and Creative Industries Students.

A rediscovered life: A selective annotated edition of the letters of Caroline Elizabeth Norton, 1828-1877 (2016)
Thesis

This thesis is a selective and annotated edition of 168 of the 2127 extant letters by Caroline Elizabeth Norton currently known to be available in both the public and private domain, which have been collected and transcribed for the project. The sele... Read More about A rediscovered life: A selective annotated edition of the letters of Caroline Elizabeth Norton, 1828-1877.

Insights from contrastive linguistics: Translating 'sort of' into French (2016)
Book Chapter

Identifying the meanings and functions of pragmatic markers such as well, you know, I mean and sort of has posed a considerable challenge for linguists in semantics and pragmatics, particularly those interested in semantic change and pragmaticalisati... Read More about Insights from contrastive linguistics: Translating 'sort of' into French.

Restocking the British world: Empire migration and anglo-Canadian relations, 1919–30 (2016)
Journal Article

Throughout the 1920s Canadian politicians, immigration officials, eugenicists and political commentators talked about the need to ‘Canadianize’ all migrants who arrived in the dominion, including those from the mother country. This did not mean that... Read More about Restocking the British world: Empire migration and anglo-Canadian relations, 1919–30.

Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education (2016)
Journal Article

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article reports on an ethnographic study carried out in three interrelated sites: two contrasting secondary schools and a Youth-Club (the principal focus of this article), in an area of southwest Wales. This article hi... Read More about Re-negotiating ideologies of bilingualism on the margins of education.

Painting the town red: the impact of Anglo-Soviet exchange on the visual arts in Britain in the 1930s (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. At its peak in the mid-1930s, the society for cultural relations with the Soviet Union (SCRs) could count among its membership some of the most influential creative practitioners working... Read More about Painting the town red: the impact of Anglo-Soviet exchange on the visual arts in Britain in the 1930s.

Gothic Appalachia (2016)
Book Chapter

This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘... Read More about Gothic Appalachia.

The naturalist in the Garden of Eden: Science and colonial landscape in Jem Poster's Rifling Paradise (2006) (2016)
Journal Article

This essay seeks to supplement an established critical tradition that reads natural history in neo-Victorian fiction from a postmodern and largely de-politicised perspective. I argue that the figure of the naturalist can be used to revisit natural hi... Read More about The naturalist in the Garden of Eden: Science and colonial landscape in Jem Poster's Rifling Paradise (2006).