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Romanticism, sincerity and authenticity (2010)
Book
Milnes, T., & Sinanan K. eds., . (2010). T. Milnes, & K. Sinanan (Eds.), Romanticism, sincerity and authenticity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

A brief review: Assistive technology and autism, a proposal for virtual tools for improved communication and emotional recognition (2010)
Book Chapter
Newbutt, N., & Donegan, M. (2010). A brief review: Assistive technology and autism, a proposal for virtual tools for improved communication and emotional recognition. In AACE (Ed.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (1998-2003). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Forty years of rural history from below: Captain Swing and the historians (2010)
Journal Article
Poole, S. (2010). Forty years of rural history from below: Captain Swing and the historians

An historiographical essay reflecting on the legacy and impact of E J Hobsbawm and George Rudé's benchmark history of nineteenth century agricultural protest, Captain Swing, in the 40 years since its first publication in 1969. It forms the introducti... Read More about Forty years of rural history from below: Captain Swing and the historians.

Introduction (2010)
Book Chapter
Robbins, K., & Fisher, J. (2010). Introduction. In K. Robbins, & J. Fisher (Eds.), Religion and Diplomacy: Religion and British Foreign Policy 1851-1941 (1-7). Dordrecht and St Louis MO: Republic of Letters

Religion and diplomacy: religion and British Foreign Policy 1815-1941 (2010)
Book
Robbins, K., & Fisher, J. (. (2010). Religion and diplomacy: religion and British Foreign Policy 1815-1941. Dordrecht and St Louis MO: Republic of Letters

For long a missing dimension in British foreign policy, religion impinged upon the formulation of Britain’s overseas interests in many ways. This was true of policy makers’ unspoken assumptions about the nature of humanity and international politics,... Read More about Religion and diplomacy: religion and British Foreign Policy 1815-1941.

Stoic ontology and Plato’s Sophist (2010)
Book Chapter
Sellars, J. (2010). Stoic ontology and Plato’s Sophist. In V. Harte, M. M. McCabe, R. W. Sharples, & A. Sheppard (Eds.), Aristotle and the Stoics Reading Plato (185-203). London: Institute of Classical Studies

A transgression too far: Women artists and the British pop art movement (2010)
Book Chapter
Tate, S. (2010). A transgression too far: Women artists and the British pop art movement. In S. Sachs, & K. Minioudaki (Eds.), Subversive Seductions: Women and Pop Art: 1958-1968 (200-223). University of the Arts Philadelphia and Abbeville Press Publishers

Why are there so few women Pop artists? This chapter exposes, through statistical and documentary evidence, the gendered dynamics of key sites for British Pop - the Royal College of Art and the Young Contemporaries exhibitions - which had very real,... Read More about A transgression too far: Women artists and the British pop art movement.

Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England' (2010)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2010). Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England'. In A. Gasiorek, & P. Parrinder (Eds.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English: The Reinvention of The British and Irish Novel 1880-1940 (118-132). Oxford: Oxford University Press

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)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2010). Reading matter and the matter of reading in Gissing’s fiction. In C. Huguet (Ed.), Writing Otherness: The Pathways of George Gissing’s Imagination (173-188). Equilibris

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.

Vatican ceremonies and tourist culture in nineteenth-century British travelogues (2010)
Book Chapter
Martens, B. (2010). Vatican ceremonies and tourist culture in nineteenth-century British travelogues. In M. Hollington, C. Waters, & J. Jordan (Eds.), Imagining Italy: Victorian Writers and Travellers (14-34). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press

Nineteenth-century British tourists who attended Catholic ceremonies in Italy were more than mere passive observers. Their accounts of Holy Week in the Vatican reveal a tension between, on the one hand, British tourists’ denigration of Catholic ritua... Read More about Vatican ceremonies and tourist culture in nineteenth-century British travelogues.