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'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology (2015)
Book Chapter
Swanson, G. (2015). 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology. In A. Harris, & T. Jones (Eds.), Love and Romance in Britain, 1918 - 1970 (161-187). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328632

The interwar period is commonly figured as a period of cultural pessimism and uncertainty, as the traumatic wound to hope brought about by of the Great War was translated into an intellectual climate characterized by Richard Overy as a ‘morbid age’.... Read More about 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology.

Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma (2015)
Journal Article
Ballinger, G. (2015). Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma

This essay suggests that Austen’s portrayal of Bristol in her fiction has two specific functions. First, it underscores her topographical realism: the references to the city and its immediate environs show how her novels are set in the recognizably r... Read More about Austen writing Bristol: The city and signification in Northanger Abbey and Emma.

Travel writing: Reception and readership (2015)
Book Chapter
Jarvis, R. (2015). Travel writing: Reception and readership. In C. Thompson (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing (89-98). London and New York: Routledge

'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830 (2015)
Book Chapter
Poole, S. (2015). 'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830. In R. Ward (Ed.), A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse (71-101). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137444011_3

Progressive accounts of the English encounter between capital punishment and modernity have made much of the abandonment c. 1783-1800 of lengthy processions to customary sites on urban peripheries and their replacement with drop systems on elevated p... Read More about 'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830.

Nosejob (2015)
Digital Artefact
Dean, J. (2015). Nosejob

Ink, digital prints, ply, 42 x 29.7cm, 2015. Exhibited in '25', University of Westminster, London, 2015

The Sensory War 1914-2014 (2015)
Digital Artefact
Davies, K., & Carden-Coyne, A. (2015). The Sensory War 1914-2014. Manchester

This major exhibition marking the Centenary of the First World War explored how artists have communicated the impact of military conflict on the body, mind, environment and human senses between 1914 and 2014. The show examined how artists from 191... Read More about The Sensory War 1914-2014.

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics (2015)
Book
Woodfield, H., & Beeching, K. (Eds.). (2015). Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Researching Sociopragmatic Variability showcases a range of research approaches and brings together new findings from three key areas: variational pragmatics, interlanguage pragmatics and contrastive pragmatics. The volume investigates sociopragmati... Read More about Researching Sociopragmatic Variability: Perspectives from Variational, Interlanguage and Contrastive Pragmatics.

The Maire of Bristowe Is Kalendar (2015)
Book
Fleming, P. (2015). M. Dresser, & R. Leech (Eds.), The Maire of Bristowe Is Kalendar. Bristol: Bristol Record Society

An edition of part of this work, begun in 1478/9 in Bristol by the town clerk, Robert Ricart. This edition consists of a substantial introduction and other notes, together with extracts from the text and the illustrative material. It is designed to s... Read More about The Maire of Bristowe Is Kalendar.

Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research (2015)
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2015). Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research. In C. Costa, & M. Murphy (Eds.), Theory as Method in Research - On Bourdieu, Social Theory and Education (191-200). Oxon: Routledge

While education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists over the years, much contemporary theory building in these areas has revolved around the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Theory as Method in Research develops the capacity o... Read More about Method as theory: (re)exploring the intellectual context of education research.

Digital scholarship: Exploring doxic approaches to educational change (2015)
Book Chapter
Costa, C., & Murphy, M. (2015). Digital scholarship: Exploring doxic approaches to educational change. In M. Murphy, & C. Costa (Eds.), Theory as Method in Research - On Bourdieu, Social Theory and Education (49-62). Routledge

Doxa, digital scholarship and the academy (Cristina Costa and Mark Murphy)

Theory as Method in Research On Bourdieu, social theory and education (2015)
Book
Murphy, M., & Costa, C. (2015). C. Costa, & M. Murphy (Eds.), Theory as Method in Research On Bourdieu, social theory and education. Oxon: Routledge

While education researchers have drawn on the work of a wide diversity of theorists over the years, much contemporary theory building in these areas has revolved around the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Theory as Method in Research develops the capacity o... Read More about Theory as Method in Research On Bourdieu, social theory and education.

Psychology and literature (2015)
Book Chapter
Davis, M. (2015). Psychology and literature. In L. Behlman, & A. Longmuir (Eds.), Victorian Literature: Criticism and Debates (250-257). Abingdon: Routledge

Psychology and literature

Video nasties (2015)
Other
Bould, M. (2015). Video nasties

Member of panel discussion before UK premiere of Joe D’Amato’s uncut Anthropophagus at The Cube

Linguistic Capital and Development Capital in a Network of Cultural Producers: Mutually Valuing Peer Groups in the ‘Interactive Fiction’ Retrogaming Scene (2015)
Journal Article
Allington, D. (2016). Linguistic Capital and Development Capital in a Network of Cultural Producers: Mutually Valuing Peer Groups in the ‘Interactive Fiction’ Retrogaming Scene. Cultural Sociology, 10(2), 267-286. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975515598333

© The Author(s) 2015. This article reports on a mixed-methods study of the cultural valuing of ‘interactive fiction’ or ‘text adventure games’: a formerly commercial videogame genre sometimes associated with electronic literature but here argued to b... Read More about Linguistic Capital and Development Capital in a Network of Cultural Producers: Mutually Valuing Peer Groups in the ‘Interactive Fiction’ Retrogaming Scene.

to be (2015)
Journal Article
Rogers, S. (2015). to be. Tears in the Fence, 62, 34

One poem.

Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming (2015)
Journal Article
Jarvis, R. (2015). Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming. Romanticism, 21(3), 250-264. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2015.0242

The author explores the origins and context of the Romantic generation’s passion for swimming, considers some of the literary meanings and uses of swimming in writing of that period, and looks in particular at the way swimming features in the lives a... Read More about Hydromania: Perspectives on Romantic Swimming.