The dreadful credibility of absurd things: A tendency in fantasy theory
(2002)
Journal Article
All Outputs (23)
'Nature takes no notice of morality': Singleness and married love in interwar Britain (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This article draws attention to the dominance of marriage during the twentieth century and the strain this institution was, and still is, under. This is achieved by focusing upon the single as a problematic category in the context of interwar Britain... Read More about 'Nature takes no notice of morality': Singleness and married love in interwar Britain.
The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London (2002)
Journal Article
This article examines the way in which the spaces, practices and pleasures of reading books became inscribed within a heteronormative geographical imaginary in Britain after the end of the Second World War. The active state provision of cultural welf... Read More about The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London.
The secret country: Prohibited desire and social change in Jayne Anne Phillips' "Bess" (2002)
Journal Article
The eclipse of private enterprise? Housing policy in the 1940s (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reasons to be cheerful? Reflections on 25 years of housing education in Britain (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Local authority housing stock transfer in the UK: From local initiative to national policy (2002)
Journal Article
Since 1988 stock transfer has been transformed from a local initiative into a central part of government policy for housing in the UK. It began as a largely rural and suburban phenomenon, generating substantial capital receipts, but has also become a... Read More about Local authority housing stock transfer in the UK: From local initiative to national policy.
The wobbly pillar? Housing and social reconstruction in the 1940s (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Classical and contemporary Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570) (2002)
Journal Article
This article seeks to show that a consideration of the use of Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570) is illuminated by a study of the structural progression of book 1 (from educational methodologies, to a declamation against courtly vices, t... Read More about Classical and contemporary Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570).
Modernising the delivery of social rented housing: Reflections on recent experience in the UK (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Housing associations and the new governance of housing: Reflections on recent experience in the UK (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Second Language Figurative Proficiency: A Comparative Study of Malay and English (2002)
Journal Article
This paper explores the potential of cognitive linguistic notions such as conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonym for comparing the figurative phraseologies of English and Malay and anticipating second language learner difficulty. A comparative an... Read More about Second Language Figurative Proficiency: A Comparative Study of Malay and English.
Film Noir (2002)
Book
This research monograph is based on the analysis of over 500 films. The book has been reviewed in: Sight and Sound (12/8: August 2002); Audience (May 2003), the Journal of British Cinema and Television (2/2: 2005). It has been cited in studies of fi... Read More about Film Noir.
The Rabegh crisis, 1916-17: 'A comparatively trivial question' or 'a self-willed disaster' (2002)
Journal Article
'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling (2002)
Book Chapter
This chapter traces the motif of the financial crash in realist novels by Dickens, Trollope and Eliot in which the inherent irrationality of capitalist relations is revealed within a broadly explicable ethical universe. By the end of the century, in... Read More about 'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling.
Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies? (2002)
Journal Article
The emergence of a relatively new genre, ‘reality television’, has helped to break down the division between text and audience in significant ways, and this presents us with interesting questions for cultural studies. In this article we consider one... Read More about Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies?.