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'Decorations may be compared to doctors': An analysis of Rhoda and Agnes Garretts suggestions for house decoration (1876) (2010)
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First published in Journal of Design History, No. 1 Vol. 16. January 2003, pp.15-33, the essay considers the work of female interior designers, Rhoda and Agnes Garrett and offers an interpretation of their book ‘Suggestions for House Decoration’. Cov... Read More about 'Decorations may be compared to doctors': An analysis of Rhoda and Agnes Garretts suggestions for house decoration (1876).

Marcus Aurelius: The philosopher (2010)
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When is a diplomat not a diplomat? The office of the High Commissioner (2010)
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Models of democracy and the politics of recognition (2010)
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Contemporary British television (2010)
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Introduction British television was often referred to in the past as 'the best in the world', but now the very idea of thinking of television as intimately bound to a sense of national pride seems almost quaint in a period where, especially for many... Read More about Contemporary British television.

Scourging the abject body: the television make-over show and the reconstruction of femininity under neoliberalism (2010)
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The television makeover show has become an important site for the discursive re-inscription of femininity as a fluid condition requiring continuous work and self-modification in order that it can be 'held together', and in which social idenity, the b... Read More about Scourging the abject body: the television make-over show and the reconstruction of femininity under neoliberalism.

Harold and Maude (2010)
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I woke up early the day I died (2010)
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Killer of sheep (2010)
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Medium cool (2010)
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Poison (2010)
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Watermelon man (2010)
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The Queen, aging femininity and the recuperation of the monarchy (2010)
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This article explores the role played by ‘aging femininity’ in the biopic, The Queen, in the recuperation of the monarchy from republican tendencies that followed from the death of Diana. The article traces how the film initially establishes a binary... Read More about The Queen, aging femininity and the recuperation of the monarchy.

'Bromesberrow' in A.R.J. Jurica (2010)
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The church of England and British policy towards the Assyrians, 1914-55 (2010)
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Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England' (2010)
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This chapter situates three major exponents of provincial fiction, Thomas Hardy, ‘Mark Rutherford’ and Arnold Bennett, in relation to ideas about provincialism, and changes in the relationship between the metropolitan centre and provincial and region... Read More about Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England'.

Reading matter and the matter of reading in Gissing’s fiction (2010)
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This chapter revisits George Gissing’s handling of reading practices within the realist frame of his practice as a novelist to show the variety of reality effects linked to reading matter and the reading subject – the choice of books, their location... Read More about Reading matter and the matter of reading in Gissing’s fiction.

Elliptical arguments (2010)
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Demonstrates that the meaning of a verb is often determined by an absent argument. For example, to treat people with respect denotes some kind of general behaviour, but to treat people (without a prepositional phrase or adverbial of manner) normally... Read More about Elliptical arguments.

Wie man aus Wörtern Bedeutungen macht: Semantische Typen treffen Valenzen (2010)
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Presents the Theory of Norms and Exploitations in German; discusses the relationship between valencies and lexical sets (collocations). This paper shows the importance of a lexically based approach to meaning analysis and a statistical approach to t... Read More about Wie man aus Wörtern Bedeutungen macht: Semantische Typen treffen Valenzen.

'He who Thinks, in Modern Traffic, is Lost': Automation and the Pedestrian Rhythms of Interwar London (2010)
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