2024-03-29T08:07:16Zhttp://uobrep.openrepository.com/oai/requestoai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022472013-09-25T10:08:44Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:08:44Z
urn:hdl:10547/302247
The works of Daniel Defoe
Owens, W.R.
Furbank, P.N.
2013-09-25T09:08:44Z
2013-09-25T09:08:44Z
2008
Book
Owens, W.R. & Furbank, P.M. (2008) 'The Works of Daniel Defoe', London: Pickering and Chatto
9781851967131
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302247
en
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/titles/1197-9781851967131-works-of-daniel-defoe
Pickering & Chatto Publishers
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022322020-04-23T07:30:25Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:11:50Z
urn:hdl:10547/302232
The Handbook to Literary Research
da Correa Sousa, Delia
Owens, W.R.
The Handbook to Literary Research is a practical guide for students embarking on postgraduate work in Literary Studies. It introduces and explains research techniques, methodologies and approaches to information resources, paying careful attention to the differences between countries and institutions, and providing a range of key examples. Packed with useful tips and exercises and written by scholars with extensive experience as teachers and researchers in the field, this volume is the ideal Handbook for those beginning postgraduate research in literature.
2013-09-25T09:11:50Z
2013-09-25T09:11:50Z
2009
Book
da Correa Sousa, D. & Owens, W.R. (2009) 'The Handbook to Literary Research', 2nd edition, London and New York: Routledge
9780415485005
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302232
en
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415485005/
Routledge
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022482020-04-23T07:30:25Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:13:04Z
urn:hdl:10547/302248
The history of reading, Vol. 1: international perspectives, c.1550–1945
Towheed, Shafquat
Owens, W.R.
How do we accurately recover the diverse engagement of readers with texts across time and in widely differing societies across the world? This volume brings together a representative sample of original, evidence based research in the History of Reading. Chapters cover individual readers, reading communities or groups and their engagement with texts in societies ranging from nineteenth-century Poland and Germany, apartheid era South Africa, Antebellum America, colonial Canada, India and New Zealand, and early modern England. Deliberately juxtaposing research on different countries, linguistic communities and historical periods, The History of Reading, Vol. 1: International Perspectives, c.1500-1990 demonstrates the challenges and rewards of undertaking empirical research on reading practices and asks whether readers' responses to texts are always entirely conditioned by their historical, socio-economic, or political circumstances. A wide-ranging critical introduction provides a succinct overview of evidence based approaches to the history of reading, and reminds us that the task of recovering the evidence of readers through history and across the world is still in its infancy.
2013-09-25T09:13:04Z
2013-09-25T09:13:04Z
2011
Book
Towheed, S. & Owens, W.R. (2011) 'The History of Reading, Vol. 1: International Perspectives, c.1550–1945', Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan
9780230247512
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302248
en
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=400341
Palgrave MacMillan
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022332020-04-23T07:40:00Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:14:30Z
urn:hdl:10547/302233
The history of reading, vol. 2: evidence from the British Isles, c.1800–1945
Halsey, Katie
Owens, W.R.
How can we find evidence of reading in the past? And how can we interpret this evidence to create a 'history' of reading? To answer these questions, this volume presents eleven fascinating accounts of readers and reading in the British Isles over two hundred years. The authors reveal the huge variety of evidence that exists, not only of what people read, but how, and in what circumstances they read. Covering a wide range of readers and texts, the essays demonstrate how individual reading practices are influenced by – even sometimes defined by – factors such as social class, political affiliation, the place of reading, the availability of books, and changes in publishing practices. With chapters highlighting the importance of reading communities, the uses to which reading may be put, and the importance of newspapers, the volume provides a richly textured account of reading practices in Britain.
2013-09-25T09:14:30Z
2013-09-25T09:14:30Z
2011
Book
Halsey, K. & Owens, W.R. (2011) 'The History of Reading, Vol. 2: Evidence from the British Isles, c.1800–1945', Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
9780230247550
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302233
en
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=400358
Palgrave MacMillan
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022352013-09-25T10:22:14Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:22:13Z
urn:hdl:10547/302235
John Bunyan and the Bible
Owens, W.R.
2013-09-25T09:22:13Z
2013-09-25T09:22:13Z
2010
Book chapter
Owens, W.R. (2010) 'John Bunyan and the Bible', in Dunan-Page, A. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan, pp. 39-50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
9780521733083
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302235
en
http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2713199/The%20Cambridge%20Companion%20to%20Bunyan/?site_locale=en_GB
Cambridge University Press
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022502013-09-25T10:33:10Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:33:10Z
urn:hdl:10547/302250
Performing Bunyan: BBC Radio and The Pilgrim’s Progress
Owens, W.R.
John Bunyan
2013-09-25T09:33:10Z
2013-09-25T09:33:10Z
2010
Book chapter
Owens, W.R. (2010) 'Performing Bunyan: BBC Radio and The Pilgrim’s Progress', in Simpson, Ken (ed.) Texting Bunyan, Latch Collection Series, vol 1, pp. 61-65. OH: Openlatch
9780981680361
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302250
en
http://www.openlatch.com/Camera%20Ready%20%28Dulia%20et%20Latria%20%28Delmac,%20Bunyan%20collection,%20all%20text,%202%29%29.pdf
Open Latch Publications
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022512013-09-25T10:38:36Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:38:36Z
urn:hdl:10547/302251
The English version of the Polyglot Bible
Owens, W.R.
2013-09-25T09:38:36Z
2013-09-25T09:38:36Z
2012
Book chapter
Owens, W.R. (2012) 'The English Version of the Polyglot Bible', in Pressler, C. & Attar, K. (Eds.) Senate House Library, University of London, London: Scala Publishers
9781857597851
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302251
en
Scala Publishers
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022522020-04-23T07:30:25Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:52:25Z
urn:hdl:10547/302252
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, and the Barbary Pirates
Owens, W.R.
University of Bedfordshire
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
This essay explores the significance for Defoe and his contemporaries of a brief episode near the beginning of Robinson Crusoe (1719) where Crusoe's ship is captured by pirates and he is held as a slave in Morocco for two years before escaping with a Morisco boy named Xury. At the time the novel was published, thousands of Christian slaves were being held in Muslim North Africa, and public campaigns to ransom them were organized on a large scale. Defoe's readers would have had access to many accounts describing how the ‘Barbary pirates’ operated, and the conditions in which their captives were held. Defoe himself regarded the activities of the pirates as a serious threat to the development of international trade and commerce, and frequently called for the creation of a pan-European military force to suppress them.
2013-09-25T09:52:25Z
2013-09-25T09:52:25Z
2013
Article
Owens, W.R. (2013) 'Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, and the Barbary Pirates', English, 62 (236), pp. 51-66
0013-8215
1756-1124
10.1093/english/efs061
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302252
English
en
http://english.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/english/efs061
Archived with thanks to English
Oxford University Press
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3018902013-09-19T13:35:56Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-19T12:35:55Z
urn:hdl:10547/301890
Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Owens, W.R.
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
English literature
novels
2013-09-19T12:35:55Z
2013-09-19T12:35:55Z
2007
Book chapter
Owens, W.R. (2007) 'Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)', in Owens, W.R. (ed.) The Novels of Daniel Defoe, vol 1. London: Pickering and Chatto
9781851967483
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/301890
en
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/titles/1038-novels-of-daniel-defoe
Pickering & Chatto Publishers
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3019072013-09-19T13:40:08Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-19T12:40:08Z
urn:hdl:10547/301907
The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Owens, W.R.
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
English literature
novels
2013-09-19T12:40:08Z
2013-09-19T12:40:08Z
2008
Book chapter
Owens, W.R. (2008) 'The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe', in Owens, W.R. (ed.) The Novels of Daniel Defoe, vol 2. London: Pickering and Chatto
9781851967537
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/301907
en
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/titles/1038-novels-of-daniel-defoe
Pickering & Chatto Publishers
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022312020-04-23T07:30:25Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:10:07Z
urn:hdl:10547/302231
The Gospels: Authorized King James Version
Owens, W.R.
A unique edition of the Gospels, in the Authorized King James version, that provides the reader with all the information they could need to appreciate the theological importance and literary and cultural significance of these great writings.
2013-09-25T09:10:07Z
2013-09-25T09:10:07Z
2011
EBook
Book
Owens, W.R. (2011) 'The Gospels: Authorized King James Version', Oxford: Oxford University Press
9780199541171
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302231
en
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199541171.do#.UdFPPqy0Roc
Oxford University Press
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022342013-09-25T10:18:41Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:18:41Z
urn:hdl:10547/302234
The canon and the curriculum
Owens, W.R.
2013-09-25T09:18:41Z
2013-09-25T09:18:41Z
2010
Book chapter
Owens, W.R. (2010) 'The Canon and the Curriculum', in Gupta, S. & Katsarska, M. (Eds.) English Studies On This Side: Post-2007 Reckonings, part 1, pp. 47-60. Plovdiv: Plovdiv University Press
954423568X
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302234
en
http://oro.open.ac.uk/22350/
Plovdiv University Press
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022492013-09-25T10:28:28Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:28:28Z
urn:hdl:10547/302249
Masters-level study in literature at the Open University: pedagogic challenges and solutions
Owens, W.R.
2013-09-25T09:28:28Z
2013-09-25T09:28:28Z
2010
Book chapter
Owens, W.R. (2010) 'Masters-level Study in Literature at The Open University: Pedagogic Challenges and Solutions', in Kayalis. T. & Natsina, A. (Eds.) Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning, pp. 33-43. London: Continuum
9780826427038
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302249
en
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teaching-literature-at-a-distance-9780826427038/
Continuum International Publishing Group
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022362020-04-23T07:30:25Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:46:58Z
urn:hdl:10547/302236
On the attribution of novels to Daniel Defoe
Furbank, P.N.
Owens, W.R.
DID DEFOE WRITE MOLL FLANDERS AND ROXANA?" asks Ashley Marshall, in an acute and well-reasoned essay in the present issue of Philological Quarterly. It is a good question, and--maybe rightly?--Marshall thinks the answer we give about these famous novels in our writings about the attribution of works to Defoe is not satisfactory. We present these works as having a secure place in the Defoe canon, even though the evidence we bring forward for his authorship of them is, by our own admission, somewhat problematical. In Marshall's view, since no good case has ever been put forward, they cannot be regarded as "definitively" by Defoe. Scholars, including ourselves, ought to face up to this problem, and should in future present these novels as only "dubiously attributed to Defoe, and preferably with special emphasis on the uncertainty."
2013-09-25T09:46:58Z
2013-09-25T09:46:58Z
2010
Article
Furbank, P.N. & Owens, W.R. (2010) 'On the Attribution of Novels to Daniel Defoe', Philological Quarterly, vol. 89, pp. 243-253
0031-7977
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302236
Philological Quarterly
en
University of Iowa
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022462019-09-23T10:10:39Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:04:20Z
urn:hdl:10547/302246
Empty boxes, empty spaces: Elizabeth Bowen’s 'The little girls'
Darwood, Nicola
2013-09-25T09:04:20Z
2013-09-25T09:04:20Z
2009
Book chapter
Darwood, N. (2009) 'Empty Boxes, Empty Spaces: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls', in McNair, A. & Ryder, J. (eds.) Further From the Frontiers: Crosscurrents in Irish and Scottish Studies, pp. 11-20. Aberdeen: AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
9781906108069
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302246
en
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/FurtherFromtheFrontiers.shtml
AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3022372019-09-23T10:10:23Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-09-25T09:58:03Z
urn:hdl:10547/302237
Eviction from Eden: the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen
Darwood, Nicola
Elizabeth Bowen
2013-09-25T09:58:03Z
2013-09-25T09:58:03Z
2010
Article
Darwood, N. (2010) 'Eviction from Eden: The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen', The Glass, 22, pp.41-49.
0269-770X
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/302237
The Glass
en
http://www.clsg.org/Glass22_web_version.pdf
Christian Literary Studies Group
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3002342020-04-23T07:37:02Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2013-08-29T11:52:32Z
urn:hdl:10547/300234
A world of lost innocence: the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen
Darwood, Nicola
Elizabeth Bowen was a prolific writer; her publishing career spanned five decades and during this time she wrote ten novels, over one hundred short stories and countless reviews and journal articles. While earlier novels are now acknowledged as Modernist texts, her later novels can be read through the lens of postmodernism; they can be considered variously as romantic fiction, marriage novels, war time spy thrillers and psychological drama but, throughout her novels, she consistently questioned notions of identity, sexuality and the loss of innocence. A World of Lost Innocence: The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen offers a reading of Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction which focuses specifically on this loss, foregrounding the psychological conflicts experienced by her protagonists. It examines the subject not only across the range of her fiction, but also in relation to her unfolding narrative structures through a chronologically based discussion of her novels and selected short stories, interwoven with biographical information and drawing on unpublished letters. This book investigates the dominant kinds of innocence that Bowen represents throughout her fiction: the innocence attributed to childhood, sexual innocence and sexual morality, and political innocence, and argues that the transition from innocence to experience plays an important role in the epistemological journey faced both by Bowen’s characters and her readers.
2013-08-29T11:52:32Z
2013-08-29T11:52:32Z
2012
Book
Darwood, N. (2012) 'A world of lost innocence: the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen', Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publications.
9781443839099
1443839094
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/300234
en
http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/A-World-of-Lost-Innocence--The-Fiction-of-Elizabeth-Bowen1-4438-3909-4.htm
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/3366802020-04-23T07:37:02Zcom_10547_132179com_10547_251948col_10547_279233col_10547_279233col_10547_251955
2014-12-05T12:42:05Z
urn:hdl:10547/336680
'Peer review of learning and teaching in higher education: international perspectives' by Judyth Sachs and Mitch Parsell : review
Darwood, Nicola
University of Bedfordshire
peer review of teaching
higher education
teaching
learning
Book review
This collection of essays, edited by Judyth Sachs and Mitch Parsell, is focused on the research behind, and the practical application of, peer review in higher education. Many of the contributors are engaged with peer review in Australia but there are also essays from academics from the UK, North America and South Africa which add to the international perspective of the study.
2014-12-05T12:42:05Z
2014-12-05T12:42:05Z
2014-11
Article
Darwood, N. (2014) 'Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: International Perspectives by Judyth Sachs and Mitch Parsell' reviewed in Journal of Pedagogic Development. 4(3), 36-38.
2047-3265
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/336680
Journal of pedagogic development
en
Volume 4
Issue 3
http://www.beds.ac.uk/jpd/volume-4-issue-3/peer-review-of-learning-and-teaching-in-higher-education-international-perspectives
University of Bedfordshire
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5771732019-09-23T10:09:19Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2015-09-11T12:05:08Z
urn:hdl:10547/577173
Crossing borders: the fantastical world of Stella Benson’s 'Living alone'.
Darwood, Nicola
Conference paper from The 16th annual conference of the Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
2015-09-11T12:05:08Z
2015-09-11T12:05:08Z
2014-07
Conference papers, meetings and proceedings
Darwood, N (2014) ‘Crossing Borders: the fantastical world of Stella Benson’s Living Alone’.‘Crossing the Space Between, 1914-1945’ – Annual conference of The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945, University College, London. Available at: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/ies-conferences/SpaceBetween
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/577173
en
http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/ies-conferences/SpaceBetween
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5771802020-04-23T07:37:02Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2015-09-11T12:08:45Z
urn:hdl:10547/577180
Travel agencies and trinket shops: representations of women of business in Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction
Darwood, Nicola
Conference papers from the IAMCR Annual Conference, Dublin City University, Dublin, June 2013, programme available at: http://www.iamcr2013dublin.org/content/responsible-leadership-age-social-and-economic-crisis-learning-history-theory-and-practice-0
Emmeline Summers, the co-owner of a travel agency in the 1930s, appears to have no real head for business, and perhaps even less for advertising strategies: she has a slogan for her business ‘ “Move dangerously” – a variant of “Live dangerously” you see’, she says, but then asks, ‘I wonder,’ […] raising her eyebrows anxiously, ‘if it is such a very good slogan? It seems to need some explaining –’[1] This paper will look at representations of the practices of women’s leadership in business through a discussion of two characters from the novels of Elizabeth Bowen. The first is Emmeline Summers in Bowen’s fourth novel, To the North (1933); the second is Clare Burkin-Jones, the owner of a gift shop, ‘Mopsie Pie’, in Bowen’s penultimate novel, The Little Girls (1963). This business seems to be far more successful than Emmeline Summers’ travel agency; indeed the first description of the business suggests that this is a profitable enterprise with a good marketing vision, for the ‘wares were some grouped, some spread, in measured profusion […] nor was any of this in vain […] five or six gazing persons were moving about in a tranced state which looked like culminating in buying.’[2] Placing these two novels within their historical context, this paper will examine the portrayal of these two women as leaders in very different eras and asks if these women, the former rather inept and the latter an effective businesswoman, are, in fact, representative of women in business in these periods of great change and questioning if Bowen’s novels highlight differing societal attitudes to women in commerce during the thirty years between the publication dates of the two novels. [1] Bowen, E (1933:1999) To the North. London: Vintage, p.23.[2] Bowen, E (1963:1982) The Little Girls. London: Penguin Books, p.137.
2015-09-11T12:08:45Z
2015-09-11T12:08:45Z
2013-06
Conference papers, meetings and proceedings
Darwood, N. (2013) 'Travel agencies and trinket shops: representations of women of business in Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction'. IAMCR 2013 Conference Dublin, 25-29 June 2013
'Crises, ‘Creative Destruction’ and the Global Power and Communication Orders'
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/577180
en
http://www.iamcr2013dublin.org/content/responsible-leadership-age-social-and-economic-crisis-learning-history-theory-and-practice-0
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5771782019-09-23T10:09:31Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2015-09-11T12:00:01Z
urn:hdl:10547/577178
Book review: 'Posthumanism' by Pramod K. Nayar
Darwood, Nicola
book review
Book review - Posthumanism by Pramod K Nayar
2015-09-11T12:00:01Z
2015-09-11T12:00:01Z
2014-06-25
Article
Darwood, N (2014) Book Review: 'Posthumanism' , Journal of Gender Studies Vol 23 (3) pp 318-320
0958-9236
1465-3869
10.1080/09589236.2014.928436
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/577178
Journal of Gender Studies
en
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2014.928436
Taylor & Francis
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5771692020-04-23T07:37:02Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2015-09-11T09:46:39Z
urn:hdl:10547/577169
Generation and regeneration: a tale of 'Helen’s Babies'.
Darwood, Nicola
Conference papers from 23rd annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP).
In 1876 John Habberton published his first novel, Helen's Babies: With Some Account of Their Ways Innocent, Crafty, Angelic, Impish, Witching, and Repulsive, Also, a Partial Record of Their Actions During Ten Days of Their Existence. The novel follows the trials and tribulations of Harry, Helen’s brother, left alone for a fortnight with his two nephews whose behaviour both charms and exhausts him in equal measure. It was a popular adult book from its first edition; however, over the succeeding years the novel has come to be regarded as a children’s book, rather than one for adults, and this transition, this regeneration, provides an interesting component in the history of the publication of children’s fiction. Although Habberton might have believed that the novel ‘had no literary justification for surviving its first summer’,[1] reporting that it was ‘declined by every prominent publishing house in the United States’,[2] George Orwell noted that ‘in its day [the novel was] one of the most popular books in the world–within the British Empire alone it was pirated by twenty different publishing firms, the author receiving a total profit of £40 from a sale of some hundreds of thousands or millions of copies.’[3] Part of its enduring charm may lie in its picture of a past which Orwell describes as ‘not only innocen[t] but [depicting] a sort of native gaiety, a buoyant, carefree feeling’’,[4] its popularity possibly enhanced by the 1924 movie adaptation starring the child actor Baby Peggy and Clara Bow.[5] With each edition and revision of the text, a new audience was sought. The regeneration of the text – from adult book to children’s book – is a fascinating story; through an analysis of six different editions of the book which focuses on the materiality of the book, the type and the illustrations, this paper charts that journey of regeneration, as Helen’s Babies became a novel which was firmly at the heart of childhood in the mid twentieth century.
2015-09-11T09:46:39Z
2015-09-11T09:46:39Z
2015-07
Conference papers, meetings and proceedings
Darwood, N (2015) “Generation and Regeneration: A tale of 'Helen’s Babies' ”, SHARP (Society for History, Authorship and Publication) Annual Conference, University of Sherbrooke at Longueuil/McGill University, Montreal. Available at: http://www.sharpweb.org/ocs/index.php/annual/sharp2015/paper/view/112
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/577169
en
http://www.sharpweb.org/ocs/index.php/annual/sharp2015/paper/view/112
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5771942019-09-23T10:08:52Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2015-09-11T12:09:56Z
urn:hdl:10547/577194
Stella Benson and 'Living alone': a real book for real people?
Darwood, Nicola
Conference paper from 'Making it New' conference, De Montfort University Feb 2015. Programme available at: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/documents/research-documents/art-design-and-humanities/english-research/conferenceprogramme.pdf
2015-09-11T12:09:56Z
2015-09-11T12:09:56Z
2015
Conference papers, meetings and proceedings
Darwood, N. (2015) ‘Stella Benson and "Living Alone": a real book for real people?’ Making It New: Victorian and Modernist Literature and Periodicals 1875-1935 Conference, De Montfort University, Leicester, 28th February.
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/577194
en
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/documents/research-documents/art-design-and-humanities/english-research/conferenceprogramme.pdf
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2015-09-11T12:02:04Z
urn:hdl:10547/577179
Crooked teeth and fleas the size of bumblebees: the subversive world of Elizabeth Taylor’s 'Mossy Trotter’
Darwood, Nicola
Conference papers from ‘The Hockliffe Conference: Conflict in Children’s and Young Adult Fiction’, University of Bedfordshire, September 2013.
2015-09-11T12:02:04Z
2015-09-11T12:02:04Z
2013-09
Conference papers, meetings and proceedings
Darwood, N. (2013) 'Crooked teeth and fleas the size of bumblebees: the subversive world of Elizabeth Taylor’s 'Mossy Trotter’'.‘The Hockliffe Conference: Conflict in Children’s and Young Adult Fiction’, University of Bedfordshire, Luton.
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/577179
en
http://www.beds.ac.uk/hockliffe/the-programme
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5791402015-10-05T12:41:02Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2015-10-05T11:41:01Z
urn:hdl:10547/579140
A brilliant alumna: the papers of Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Farmer, Gareth
University of Bedfordshire
Veronica Forrest-Thompson
poetry
Article in the 2014 annual review of Girton College, 'The Year'.
2015-10-05T11:41:01Z
2015-10-05T11:41:01Z
2014
Article
Farmer, G. (2014) 'A brilliant alumna: the Papers of Veronica Forrest-Thomson'. The Year, Annual Review of Girton College, pp. 22-27
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/579140
The Year
en
http://issuu.com/girtoncollege/docs/girton_the_year_2014_web
Girton College
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5792342015-10-08T14:07:34Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2015-10-05T11:24:38Z
urn:hdl:10547/579234
Obstinate isles and rhetorical sincerity: Veronica Forrest-Thomson on Ezra Pound
Farmer, Gareth
2015-10-05T11:24:38Z
2015-10-05T11:24:38Z
2014
Book chapter
Farmer, G. (2014) ‘Obstinate Isles and Rhetorical Sincerity: Veronica Forrest-Thomson on Ezra Pound’. In Parker R (Ed.) News from Afar: Ezra Pound and Some Contemporary British Poetries. Bristol: Shearsman, pp. 161-83
9781848613645
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/579234
en
http://www.shearsman.com/ws-shop/category/796-books/product/4789-richard-parker---news-from-afar-ezra-pound-and-some-contemporary-british-poetries
Shearsman Books
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5791392015-10-08T14:07:12Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2015-10-05T11:23:36Z
urn:hdl:10547/579139
Loving language with Dylan Thomas
Farmer, Gareth
2015-10-05T11:23:36Z
2015-10-05T11:23:36Z
2014
Article
Farmer, G (2014) ‘Loving Language with Dylan Thomas’, Poetry Wales, 49 (4) pp. 11-16.
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/579139
Poetry Wales
en
http://poetrywales.co.uk/wp/lang/en/1597/spring-2014-issue-49-4/
Poetry Wales Press Ltd.
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948522020-04-23T07:34:22Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2016-01-26T12:08:19Z
urn:hdl:10547/594852
The ‘lower classes are very hard readers’: Kidderminster Municipal Library 1855–1856
Gerrard, Teresa A.
Weedon, Alexis
University of Bedfordshire
free library
public libraries
reading
emigration
donations to libraries
Napoleonic wars
nineteenth-century working-class reading practices
This article looks at the library borrowing records of Kidderminster Municipal Library at a time of economic decline in the main industry of the town — carpet weaving. It illustrates the limitations of the early libraries following the 1850 Public Libraries Act through a local study. It examines how the borrowing records recorded in a surviving issue book reflect trends in the popularity of reading materials and, in particular, growing interest in migration to London and emigration abroad.
2016-01-26T12:08:19Z
2016-01-26T12:08:19Z
2013-05
Article
Gerrard, T., Weedon, A. (2013) 'The ‘Lower Classes Are Very Hard Readers’: Kidderminster Municipal Library 1855–1856'. Library & Information History 29 (2):81
1758-3489
1758-3497
10.1179/1758348913Z.00000000031
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594852
Library & Information History
en
http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1758348913Z.00000000031
Maney Publishing
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/5948662020-04-23T07:34:22Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2016-01-26T13:07:31Z
urn:hdl:10547/594866
The history of the book in the west: 1914-2000. Volume 5.
Weedon, Alexis
University of Bedfordshire
This collection brings together published papers on key themes which book historians have identified as of particular significance in the history of twentieth-century publishing. It reprints some of the best comparative perspectives and most insightful and innovatively presented scholarship on publishing and book history from such figures as Philip Altbach, Lewis Coser, James Curran, Elizabeth Long, Laura Miller, Angus Phillips, Janice Radway, Jonathan Rose, Shafquat Towheed, Catherine Turner, Jay Satterfield, Clare Squires, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén. It is arranged into six sections which examine the internationalisation of publishing businesses, changing notions of authorship, innovation in the design and marketing of books, the specific effects of globalisation on creative property and the book in a multimedia marketplace.
2016-01-26T13:07:31Z
2016-01-26T13:07:31Z
2010
Book
Weedon, A. (2010) 'The History of the Book in the West: 1914-2000. Volume 5'. Series: The History of the Book in the West: A Library of Critical Essays. Ashgate
9780754627838
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/594866
en
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754627838
Ashgate
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/6037452020-04-23T07:33:39Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2016-03-29T09:10:49Z
urn:hdl:10547/603745
Review: Dean Baldwin: Art and commerce in the British short story, 1880-1950.
Witwit, May
short stories
Review of Baldwin, D. (2013) 'Art and commerce in the British short story, 1880-1950' London: Pickering & Chatto.
2016-03-29T09:10:49Z
2016-03-29T09:10:49Z
2013-11-30
Other
Witiwt, M. (2013) 'Review: DEAN BALDWIN. Art and Commerce in the British Short Story, 1880-1950', The Review of English Studies 65 (270):570
0034-6551
1471-6968
10.1093/res/hgt111
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/603745
The Review of English Studies
en
http://res.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/doi/10.1093/res/hgt111
Archived with thanks to The Review of English Studies
Oxford University Press
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/6035312020-04-23T07:33:39Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2016-03-23T13:45:19Z
urn:hdl:10547/603531
Nostalgia in Iraq's Post 2003 Drama
Witwit, May
Iraqi migrant
Iraqi soap operas
Iraqi drama
Iraq
soap opera
Conference paper presented at the 'Future of Nostalgia in the Middle East. Held by the University of Copenhagen June 2014
Abstract Past and present docu-drama are mostly favoured by Iraqis, yet those tackling topics that were tabooed since Iraq became a republic in July 1958; such as the assassination of the Iraqi royal family, the immigration of Arab Jews and British and German espionage and competition over Iraq, are most popular. These themes are presented through depicting the life-stories of famous singers such as the Iraqi Jewish singer Salima Murad, who refused to immigrate to Israel and remained in the country, and the Iraqi Christian singer Afifa Iskander, who was involved in espionage because of her love story with General Bakr Sidqi, an Iraqi general who in 1936 led a coup d’etat. Both soaps are not much concerned with the social and artistic lives of the singers as they are with the political details. The singers are exploited one way or another and the audience are amazed to watch these previously banned details on TV and at their leisure. The nostalgia for the “good old days” when Iraq enjoyed a nationalist Arab spirit is revived together with the rejection of the colonialist powers, mixing past and present. The romantic atmosphere is also revived, reminding older generations of the times when singers sang of pure love and yearning for the beloved and the difficulty to meet freely. The difficulty to meet in the past can also trigger similar feelings in the younger generations, who are mostly prevented from meeting their loved ones by the daily explosions all over Iraq. This paper explores Nostalgia, as diversely understood and interpreted, both in its relationship to the present and in its political implications. The paper constructs Iraq’s post 2003 drama and its argument, through the discussion of the temporalities of discourse, nostalgia and memory pointed out in Susannah Radstone’s The Sexual Politics of Time (2007) and in Birgite Beumers’ Nikita Mikhalkov: Between Nostalgia and Nationalism (2005).
2016-03-23T13:45:19Z
2016-03-23T13:45:19Z
2014-06-20
Conference papers, meetings and proceedings
Witwit, M. (2014) 'Nostalgia in Iraq's Post 2003 Drama' 'Future of Nostalgia in the Middle East conference. Held by the University of Copenhagen June 2014
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/603531
en
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/6037442020-04-23T07:33:38Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2016-03-29T09:01:43Z
urn:hdl:10547/603744
Biblical proximity and women: the image of Arabs in Victorian works of religious nature
Witwit, May
University of Bedfordshire
nineteenth century periodicals
Bible
Arab women
Victorian perception of Arabs
mediaeval polemic
Abstract The pro-suffrage campaign to elevate the Oriental female did not give emphasis to Arab women; however, they were vividly presented in religious literature and romances of a religious nature. The inferior position and the victimisation of Arab women, attributed to Islam, delivered a political and a religious message that helped steer the Victorian reader’s opinion towards a desired effect. The paper will focus on the image of the Arab woman in some of these publications to highlight that the use of the biblical element of the Middle East was employed to reinforce Christianity and combat Ottomans. The image of the victimised Arab woman also prepared the public for a future military involvement in the Middle East. The paper suggests that the Victorian depiction of the Arab female may well be the precursor of present-day use of Islam-phobic slogans that trigger sorrow easily transformed into anger at the men, culture and the religion that victimise women.
2016-03-29T09:01:43Z
2016-03-29T09:01:43Z
2015-10
Article
Witwit, M. (2015) 'Biblical proximity and women: the image of Arabs in Victorian works of religious nature'. Arab World English Journal 6 (3) 5-17
2229-9327
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/603744
Arab World English Journal
en
http://www.awej.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=779:may-a-witwit&catid=61&Itemid=138
Arab World English Journal
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/6035482020-04-23T07:33:40Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2016-03-23T12:58:47Z
urn:hdl:10547/603548
Market suitability: the case of Eliza Lynn Linton
Witwit, May
anti-suffrage
Victorian women writers
Victorian literature
women writers
women
Conference presented at The International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW) From Brontë to Bloomsbury Second International Conference:
Reassessing Women’s Writing of the 1860s and 1870s
Market Suitability: The Case of Eliza Lynn Linton At the beginning of her career Linton wrote ‘bold’ novels and articles supporting women’s emancipation but later insisted that the emancipation of women was a “giant mistake.” This paper argues that she changed from a vanguard of modern womanhood into an anti-suffrage misogynist to suit the anti-suffrage press backed by the ruling aristocrats. Her attacks on women began with the women’s emancipation movements and her sensational article ‘The Girl of the Period’ and similar essays criticized the New Woman and highlighted women’s points of weakness. Through chronologically setting the change in her public attitude against real life events, taken from her letters and her barely concealed autobiographic works, this paper attempts to show that Linton’s conversion to anti-feminism in the later part of the 1860s was a change in tactics rather than conviction and a part of her literary industry to achieve fame and keep a reasonable flow of income.
2016-03-23T12:58:47Z
2016-03-23T12:58:47Z
2015-07-07
Conference papers, meetings and proceedings
Witwit, M. (2015) 'Market suitability: the case of Eliza Lynn Linton'. International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW) From Brontë to Bloomsbury Second International Conference: Reassessing Women’s Writing of the 1860s and 1870s, Canterbury: 6-7th July.
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/603548
en
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/6037432020-04-23T07:33:42Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2016-03-29T08:56:41Z
urn:hdl:10547/603743
False freedoms
Witwit, May
University of Bedfordshire
Iraq
democracy
creative chaos
academic institutions
academic freedom
It is hard to appreciate freedom until you experience losing it. It may be difficult for someone born in a democracy to understand, but it’s somewhat like comparing what a wild bird feels when locked in a cage, as opposed to a bird born in captivity that regards a cage as its natural environment. When I am asked about academic freedom in Iraq, it is this parallel that leaps to mind. As a former lecturer at the University of Baghdad who has recently completed a PhD in the UK, I have felt the difference acutely.
2016-03-29T08:56:41Z
2016-03-29T08:56:41Z
2012-09
Article
Witwit, M. (2012) 'False freedoms', Index on Censorship 41 (3) 127-132
0306-4220
10.1177/0306422012456140
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/603743
1746-6067
Index on Censorship
en
http://ioc.sagepub.com/content/41/3/127.extract
Sage Journals
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/6037422017-03-21T10:57:15Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2016-03-29T08:51:59Z
urn:hdl:10547/603742
CARA changed my life
Witwit, May
University of Bedfordshire
conflict
refugees
CARA
2016-03-29T08:51:59Z
2016-03-29T08:51:59Z
2013-04
Article
Witwit, M. (2013) 'CARA changed my life', Medicine, conflict, and survival 29 (1):82-3
1362-3699
23729102
10.1080/13623699.2013.765205
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/603742
Medicine, conflict, and survival
en
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13623699.2013.765205?journalCode=fmcs20
Taylor & Francis
oai:uobrep.openrepository.com:10547/6039862016-03-30T10:48:56Zcom_10547_132179col_10547_279233
2016-03-30T09:48:54Z
urn:hdl:10547/603986
Escaping to the desert: the case of Gertrude Bell
Witwit, May
University of Bedfordshire
Arabia
Gertrude Bell
travel
A paper submitted at the 'Women in British Politics' conference held by the University of Lincoln May 2011
2016-03-30T09:48:54Z
2016-03-30T09:48:54Z
2011-05
Conference papers, meetings and proceedings
Witwit, M. (2011) 'Escaping to the desert: the case of Gertrude Bell' 'Women in British Politics' conference, Lincoln: University of Lincoln May 2011.
http://hdl.handle.net/10547/603986
en