Outputs (52)

Angela Carter’s ‘rigorous system of disbelief’: Religion, misogyny, myth and the cult (2019)
Book Chapter

Angela Carter professed her atheism as a rigorous system of disbelief and demythologized religion throughout her work. This included her surrealist art film, The Holy Family Album (1991), and her satire of medieval Catholicism in The Infernal Desire... Read More about Angela Carter’s ‘rigorous system of disbelief’: Religion, misogyny, myth and the cult.

A regional company? RED Production and the cultural politics of place (2019)
Journal Article

This article explores the significance of RED Production’s location in the north-west of England, analysing the complexities of its positioning as a ‘regional’ company contextualised within the broader issues surrounding regional television productio... Read More about A regional company? RED Production and the cultural politics of place.

Book review of Emily Steinlight's Populating the novel: Literary form and the politics of surplus life (2019)
Journal Article

Book review

Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth? (2019)
Journal Article

This essay examines philosopher of technology and media Bernard Stiegler’s propositions concerning the nature and effects of the automation of social existence through computational processes deployed in online media. It argues for the critical perti... Read More about Bernard Stiegler on algorithmic governmentality: A new regimen of truth?.

Heritage empath: Of home and each other (2019)
Digital Artefact

Interactive audio story experienced in the real world, where the audience gets the opportunity to follow the story of Kelechi, a migrant from Nigeria, as she negotiates the process of leaving family and home in one country to forge a new one in anoth... Read More about Heritage empath: Of home and each other.

Accounting for lives: Autobiography and biography in the accounts of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1642–1666 (2019)
Journal Article

This article significantly adds to the literature on the value of financial accounts, demonstrating their worth as both an autobiographical and biographical source. It argues that elite accounts can be seen both as a biography of the master, and an a... Read More about Accounting for lives: Autobiography and biography in the accounts of Sir Thomas Myddelton, 1642–1666.

Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs (2019)
Journal Article

© Liverpool University Press. This article is concerned with questions of history, memory and meaning, and with the construction of Afrofuturism as both an archive and a living tradition. It will begin by outlining the origins of the term, and consid... Read More about Afrofuturism and the archive: Robots of Brixton and crumbs.

Neo-Victorianism, settler (post)colonialism and domesticity in Patrick White’s Voss (2019)
Journal Article

This article reads Patrick White’s 1957 novel Voss as an early example of Neo-Victorian fiction, a relatively recent but critically well-established category of postwar and contemporary fiction that has not yet been deployed with reference to Voss. I... Read More about Neo-Victorianism, settler (post)colonialism and domesticity in Patrick White’s Voss.

Continuing the contradictions: A multimodal investigation into the front covers of real-life magazines (2019)
Journal Article

Studies analysing women’s magazines note contradiction as a common theme, whether it be the content of the magazines and the ideological values presented therein, or at broader, political levels. This paper empirically investigates to what extent con... Read More about Continuing the contradictions: A multimodal investigation into the front covers of real-life magazines.

“When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 BY BOOKBIRD, INC. Focusing on Williams-Garcia’s No Laughter Here (2004) and Craigie’s What Was Never Said (2015), this article questions their representation of female genital mutilation (FGM). It considers the use of voice, writing, and siste... Read More about “When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature.