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Utopia, Palestine, and partition:Herbert Samuel’s An Unknown Land (1942) [PDF]
, 2016 In this article Fordham examines the relation between, on the one hand, ‘An Unknown Land’ (1942), a moderately popular utopian fiction written by the Jewish Liberal politician, Herbert Samuel, and, on the other, Samuel’s involvement in British policy ...
Fordham, Finn
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Exchanges, 2022 Anita Mason was a Booker Prize-nominated novelist who taught Creative Writing at the University of Warwick from 2007 until 2009. At the time of her death in September 2020, she left behind three unpublished short novels that provide a powerful, if ...
Colin Hutchinson
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Structures of authority : postwar masculinity and the British police [PDF]
, 2015 The British police procedural novel of the 1950s has attracted little critical attention, perhaps because the decade is seen as a ‘golden age’ of police legitimacy (Loader and Mulcahy, 2003).
Plain, Gill
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Cross-dressing and Empowerment in Anglo-Indian Fiction:Embracing Subaltern Invisibility
E-REA, 2019 In several works of colonial fiction, British characters adopt disguise to escape a potentially dangerous situation or simply to have access to places ordinarily closed to members of the colonizer society.
Jaine CHEMMACHERY
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Applying the Theory of Grammatical Metaphor to Two English Short Stories
مجلة الآداب, 2022 This paper identifies and describes the textual densities of ideational metaphors through the application of GM theory (Halliday, 1994) to the textual analysis of two twentieth century English short stories: one American (The Mansion (1910-11), by Henry
Baidaa Abbas Ghubin AL-Zubaidy, Phd.
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HumanitiesKristen Sandrock (2020) connects John Lanchester’s 2019 Brexit novel The Wall with what she refers to as ‘British border epistemologies’; that is, a radical process of re-bordering due to global warming and its impact on human mobility.
María Alonso Alonso
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Diciottesimo Secolo, 2019 This essay investigates Beccaria’s ideas on Great Britain and his contacts with British intellectuals and their published works. His interests were not restricted to philosophy but included history and fiction. Particular attention will be devoted to all
Gianni Francioni
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Expressive English Phrases in Modern British Fiction
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2016 The article focuses on the expressive noun and verb phrases of the English language in some texts of modern British fiction. An analysis of the formal-structural, semantic, and functional aspects of the said constructions enables the author to reveal the
Ekaterina Igorevna Korolyova
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“Tales and Adventures”: G.A. Henty’s Union Jack and the Competitive World of Publishing for Boys in the 1880s’ [PDF]
, 2008 In the competitive publishing environment of the late nineteenth century, writers and magazines had to distinguish themselves carefully from potential rivals. This article examines how G.A. Henty’s quality boys’ weekly, Union Jack (1880-83), attempted to
A. Moncrieff +21 more
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Non-Fictional Interwar Narratives by English Writers
E-REA, 2020 The article presents a comparative reading of three nonfictional interwar narratives by British writers who are also well-known as authors of fiction or poetry. Siegfried Sassoon’s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) and Robert Graves’s Good Bye to All
Barbara PUSCHMANN-NALENZ
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