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Steven Spielberg (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Steven Spielberg. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (200-205). Routledge

Overview of Spielberg’s career and critical analysis of his science fiction films.

Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo. In M. Bould, & C. Mieville (Eds.), Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (1-26). Pluto Press (UK)

This essay argues that sf has long been engaged in mapping - often unconsciously – the processes of globalisation and empire. It illustrates this argument with analyses of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and the Wachowski brother... Read More about Rough Guide to a Lonely Planet, from Nemo to Neo.

Addressing regional cultural heritage maintenance using the digital songlines game engine (2009)
Book Chapter
Leavy, B., Wyeld, T. G., & Crogan, P. (2009). Addressing regional cultural heritage maintenance using the digital songlines game engine. In L. Hjorth, & D. Chan (Eds.), Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific (107-169). New York: Routledge

An essay exploring the cultural, aesthetic and ethical implications of using a videogame engine in an Aboriginal cultural heritage preservation project.

Introduction to Part One: The late nineteenth century interior (1870-1900) (2009)
Book Chapter
Ferry, E. (2009). Introduction to Part One: The late nineteenth century interior (1870-1900). In P. Sparke, A. Massey, T. Keeble, & B. Martin (Eds.), Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today (13-29). Oxford: Berg

An overview of the themes and published sources available for the study of the late-19th century interior and an introduction to three new essays within this book.

Women and Labour politics (2009)
Book Chapter
Hannam, J. (2009). Women and Labour politics. In M. Worley (Ed.), The Foundations of the British Labour Party: Identities, Cultures and Perspectives, 1900-39 (171-191). London: Ashgate

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's secret: An anti-feminist amongst women (2009)
Book Chapter
Mattacks, K. (2009). Mary Elizabeth Braddon's secret: An anti-feminist amongst women. In T. Wagner (Ed.), Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Cambria Press

This reclaims the novelist M.E. Braddon from the claims that her popular brand of 1860s fiction was intended to promote the feminist cause. Rather, by examining archive and textual evidence, Braddon emerges as a complex conservative figure who was de... Read More about Mary Elizabeth Braddon's secret: An anti-feminist amongst women.

Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica. In W. J. Burling (Ed.), Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical essays (257-273). McFarland

Drawing together often antagonistic Marxist and ecological critical-theory, this essay sympathetically critiques Kim Stanley Robinson’s treatment of nature, while calling for a theory and praxis which acknowledges and embraces the non-human in tackli... Read More about Dead penguins in immigrant pilchard scandal: Telling stories about the "environment" in Antarctica.

Metaphor and political communication (2009)
Book Chapter
Charteris-Black, J. (2009). Metaphor and political communication. In A. Musolff, & J. Zinken (Eds.), Metaphor and Discourse (97-115). Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

Thomas Hardy’s notebooks (2009)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2009). Thomas Hardy’s notebooks. In K. Wilson (Ed.), A Companion to Thomas Hardy (86-101). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

The Mark of Cain: Eric Portman and British stardom (2009)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2009). The Mark of Cain: Eric Portman and British stardom. In T. Soila (Ed.), Stellar Encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema (108-117). New Barnet, Herts.: John Libbey

Studies of film stardom have concentrated almost entirely on Hollywood stars. This collection breaks new ground by focusing on stardom in various European cinemas. My contribution explores an important post-war British male star, his persona, acting... Read More about The Mark of Cain: Eric Portman and British stardom.

Language and linguistics (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2009). Language and linguistics. In M. Bould, A. M. Butler, A. Roberts, & S. Vint (Eds.), The Routledge companion to Science Fiction (225-235). Routledge

A critical survey of the ways in which sf texts have imagined new languages, and a materialist critique of the ways in which idealist structuralist and post-structuralist models of language have been used to discuss the specific nature of language us... Read More about Language and linguistics.

Procatalepsis and the etymology of hedging and boosting particles (2009)
Book Chapter
Beeching, K. (2009). Procatalepsis and the etymology of hedging and boosting particles. In M. M. Hansen, & J. Visconti (Eds.), Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics (81-106). Bingley: Emerald

This chapter breaks new ground by highlighting the role of concession in semantic change, drawing examples cross-linguistically from English, French and German. It contributes to theories of semantic change which support cognitive and social-interact... Read More about Procatalepsis and the etymology of hedging and boosting particles.

Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French (2009)
Book Chapter
Beeching, K. (2009). Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French. In K. Beeching, N. Armstrong, & F. Gadet (Eds.), Sociolinguistic Variation in Contemporary French (215-239). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins

The multifunctional nature of discourse-marking bon (well) is well-attested in the literature (Auchlin, 1981; Winther, 1985, Hansen, 1998a and b, Jayez, 2004). Its adverbial and interjective uses can, according to Hansen (1998a), be related to its ca... Read More about Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French.

Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur (2009)
Book Chapter
Boccardi, M. (2009). Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur. In C. Patey, & L. Scuriatti (Eds.), The Exhibit in the Text: The Museological Practices of Literature (241-255). Bern: Peter Lang

The essay examines how collecting and textual accumulation provided the British Empire with a range of symbolic practices to extert indirect control over the colonised territory. The chapter centres on J.G. Farrell's satire of imperial ideology in hi... Read More about Exploding taxonomies, exhibiting textuality: J.G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur.

Manufacturing landscapes, disappearing labour: From production lines to the cities of the future (2009)
Book Chapter
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2009). Manufacturing landscapes, disappearing labour: From production lines to the cities of the future. In L. White, & C. Pajaczkowska (Eds.), The Sublime Now (269-285). Cambridge Scholars

This essay connects the spectacle of the digitally animated workerless production line in contemporary blockbusters to David Nye's argument about the development of the sublime in American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. It culminates in a di... Read More about Manufacturing landscapes, disappearing labour: From production lines to the cities of the future.

EU financial services regulation: National brokerage strategies (2009)
Book Chapter
Christopoulos, D., & Quaglia, L. (2009). EU financial services regulation: National brokerage strategies. In M. Gehler, W. Kaiser, & B. Leucht (Eds.), Netzwerke im europäischen Mehrebenensystem: von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart = Networks in European multi-level governance ; from 1945 to the present (217-231). Vienna: Böhlau

Networks in financial services regulation in the European Union (2009)
Book Chapter
Christopoulos, D., & Quaglia, L. (2009). Networks in financial services regulation in the European Union. In M. Gehler, W. Kaiser, & B. Leucht (Eds.), Netzwerke im europaisischen Mehrbenensystem, Von 1945 bis sur Gegenwart (Networks in European Multi-Level Governance, From 1945 to the Present) (217-232). Böhlau Verlag