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Acts of piracy: Black ey'd Susan, theatrical publishing and the Victorian stage (2011)
Book Chapter
Mattacks, K. (2011). Acts of piracy: Black ey'd Susan, theatrical publishing and the Victorian stage. In G. Moore (Ed.), Pirates and Mutineers in Victorian Culture. Ashgate Press

This chapter argues that the plethora of nautical dramas that figured pirates in the mid-Victorian era were a result of the complex relationship between theatre practitioners and publishers. The publisher T.H. Lacy in particular was adept at printing... Read More about Acts of piracy: Black ey'd Susan, theatrical publishing and the Victorian stage.

The return of evacuated children to Leningrad, 1944-46 (2011)
Book Chapter
White, E. (2011). The return of evacuated children to Leningrad, 1944-46. In J. Reinisch, & E. White (Eds.), The Disentanglement of Populations Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in postwar Europe, 1944-49 (251-270). Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan

The angel of death: Targetting the hitman (2011)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2011). The angel of death: Targetting the hitman. In B. Nicol, P. Pulman, & E. McNulty (Eds.), Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film (155-174). London: Continuum

Although there are hundreds of films that feature hitmen, this is the first critical account of the origins, development and possible cultural and historical significance of this figure and thus an original contribution to scholarship. It charts the... Read More about The angel of death: Targetting the hitman.

Doctor Who: Adaptations and flows (2011)
Book Chapter
Bould, M. (2011). Doctor Who: Adaptations and flows. In J. P. Telotte, & G. Duchovny (Eds.), Science Fiction Film, Television and Adaptation: Across the Screens (143-163). Routledge

Nature (2011)
Book Chapter
Greenham, D. (2011). Nature. In W. Mott (Ed.), Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context (84-91). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139235594.014

© Cambridge University Press 2014. To begin to understand what the term nature meant to the intellectual culture of Emerson’s time it is perhaps best to start with William Ellery Channing, a prominent New England Unitarian of the 1820s and 1830s. In... Read More about Nature.

Nancy Meyers and 'popular feminism' (2011)
Book Chapter
Glitre, K. (2011). Nancy Meyers and 'popular feminism'. In M. Waters (Ed.), Women on Screen: Feminism and Femininity in Visual Culture (17-30). Palgrave Macmillan

The acquisition of relative clauses in Finnish; the effect of input (2011)
Book Chapter
Kirjavainen, M., & Lieven, E. (2011). The acquisition of relative clauses in Finnish; the effect of input. In E. Kidd (Ed.), Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, Typology, and Function (107-139). John Benjamins

Little research has been conducted to date investigating Finnish children’s relative clause acquisition. We report a study on the emergence of these structures in one Finnish speaking child’s corpus between the ages of 1;7 – 3;6. The study focuses on... Read More about The acquisition of relative clauses in Finnish; the effect of input.

Mary Shelley (2011)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2011). Mary Shelley. In A. Maunder (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism (400-404). New York, USA: Facts on File

Goldie Hawn: A dumb blonde for the baby boomer generation (2011)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2011). Goldie Hawn: A dumb blonde for the baby boomer generation. In A. Swinnen, & J. A. Stotesbury (Eds.), Aging, Performance and Stardom: Doing Age on the Stage of Consumerist Culture. Lit Verlag

Shakespeare and politics (2011)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2011). Shakespeare and politics. In G. Marshall (Ed.), Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century (229-250). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

This essay examines the complex ways in which Shakespeare’s plays, and the figure of Shakespeare himself becomes entangled in political argument from the post-Napoleonic years until the early twentieth century, particularly as a source of inspiration... Read More about Shakespeare and politics.

The landed Elite, 1300-1500 (2010)
Book Chapter
Fleming, P. (2010). The landed Elite, 1300-1500. In S. Sweetinburgh (Ed.), Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540. Boydell and Brewer

Bromesberrow (2010)
Book Chapter
Draper, S. (2010). Bromesberrow. In A. Jurica (Ed.), The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester Volume XII: Newent and May Hill (95-121). Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer