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"Biting the sour apple": The Nietzschean undertow in Little Eyolf (2009)
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In this essay, Little Eyolf is treated as a play that offers compelling internal evidence of Ibsen's critical, intertextual engagement with Nietzche. Not only does the play invoke the Nietzschean imagery associated with lower chthonic powers and tran... Read More about "Biting the sour apple": The Nietzschean undertow in Little Eyolf.

Network constraints in EU banking regulation: The capital requirements directive (2009)
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Abstract The ongoing financial turmoil has brought into sharp relief the importance of financial services regulation. Yet, we still know relatively little about how financial regulation is negotiated within the EU, in particular which policy actors a... Read More about Network constraints in EU banking regulation: The capital requirements directive.

The archive and the detail (2009)
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A discussion of historical methodology and historical consciousness, cultural change, social relations, human singularity and imaginative life, cultural difference, social feeling and cultural attachment.

Urban policy and urban political culture: Henry VII and his towns (2009)
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Henry VII has established a widely-recognized reputation for the assiduousness of his governance. For all the research conducted on Henry's handling of central government machinery, however, little scholarly effort has concentrated on the king's poli... Read More about Urban policy and urban political culture: Henry VII and his towns.

The tripartite forum of dialogue: Is this the solution to the 'problem' of Gibraltar? (2009)
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Following the abortive attempt by Britain and Spain to negotiate the joint sovereignty of Gibraltar in 2001 - 02, the incoming Spanish Government in 2004 proposed the establishment of a Forum of Dialogue, in which for the first time Gibraltar would t... Read More about The tripartite forum of dialogue: Is this the solution to the 'problem' of Gibraltar?.

'I want hold Postman Pat': An investigation into the acquisition of infinitival marker 'to' (2009)
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Infinitival-to omission errors (e.g., *I want hold Postman Pat) are produced by many English-speaking children early in development. This article aims to explain these omissions by investigating the emergence of infinitival-to, and its production/omi... Read More about 'I want hold Postman Pat': An investigation into the acquisition of infinitival marker 'to'.

Angels (2009)
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An article written on the BBC drama Angels for Videoactive, a project funded within the eContentplus programme of the European Commission. This is an EU funded project that aims to create access to television archives across Europe in order to enabl... Read More about Angels.

The loss of grammatical gender in cappadocian greek (2009)
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Cappadocian Greek is an extreme case of language change and dialectal variation among the Modern Greek dialects in having lost the tripartite grammatical gender distinction into masculine, feminine and neuter nominals, a distinction operative in Gree... Read More about The loss of grammatical gender in cappadocian greek.

Book review: British and Irish home arts and industries 1880 - 1914: Marketing craft, making fashion (2009)
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A review of Janice Helland's British and Irish Home Arts and Industries 1800 - 1914: Marketing Craft, Making Fashion

Remembering slavery and abolition in Bristol (2009)
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This article charts how the public commemoration of slavery and abolition in the former slaving port of Bristol, England, evolved from the late nineteenth century to the bicentennial of the abolition of the British slave trade in 2007. It argues that... Read More about Remembering slavery and abolition in Bristol.

Introduction (2009)
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This was a themed issue of the Journal and the first to focus on the issue of screenwriting/the screenwriter. This was path-breaking in relation to British cinema where this topic has hardly begun to be addressed. The issue, that included academics,... Read More about Introduction.

Interview: Allan Cubitt (2009)
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Allan Cubitt is an important contemporary writer who has worked in fringe theatre, television and film. The interview was the first critical profile he has received and thus an original contribution to the history of screenwriting and British cinema.... Read More about Interview: Allan Cubitt.

British culture and society in the 1970's - conference report (2009)
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Technologies between games and culture (2009)
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This article introduces and situates the ensuing collection of four essays on the theme of games and technology. It argues the need for videogame studies to develop a more rigorous and focused perspective on the theorization of technology as it relat... Read More about Technologies between games and culture.

'Far below her former station': Jessop, Brunel and Bristol's Floating Harbour (2009)
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Regulatory bodies: Dramatic creativity, control and the commodity of Lady Audley's Secret (2009)
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This article investigates how the playwrights of the Victorian era creatively exploited the loopholes in copyright and licensing laws. I argue that in depicting the heroine Lady Audley's bodily display, they themselves engage with the issues of regul... Read More about Regulatory bodies: Dramatic creativity, control and the commodity of Lady Audley's Secret.

From analogues to digital: New resources in Victorian drama (2009)
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This article outlines the key resources that have emerged in the field of mid-Victorian drama. It focussed on the British Library/Royal Holloway Project 'Buried Treasures' and The Victorian Plays Project at Worcester.

Contesting the ‘secret grudge’: the image of America in the Edinburgh Review, 1803-1829 (2009)
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Experimental girls: feminist and transgender discourse in Bill’s New Frock and Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl? (2009)
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The ‘us only’ and ‘us+them’ frames in reporting the Sierra Leone war: Implications for peace journalism and global justice in Ethica (2009)
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This paper explores the debate over the framing of ‘their’ problem and not ‘ours’ in the context of the Sierra Leone civil war. It draws on a multi-dimensional exploratory discourse analysis based on the coverage of the Sierra Leone civil war between... Read More about The ‘us only’ and ‘us+them’ frames in reporting the Sierra Leone war: Implications for peace journalism and global justice in Ethica.