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The Journal of American Culture, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 184-190, December 2025.ABSTRACT Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the ...
Fran Pheasant‐Kelly
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Les édifices néogothiques parisiens et leurs verrières : églises et chapelles catholiques
In Situ, 2012 Despite the interest elicited by 19th century religious art over the past thirty years, Paris has lost much of its 19th century religious stained glass. It was urgent to carry out an inventory of what remains.
Martine Callias Bey
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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 338-358, September 2025.ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
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Eleanor Coade and Horace Walpole's Gothic Gateway: A Study in Eighteenth‐Century Business Practice
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 149-176, June 2025.Abstract Artificial stone manufacturer Eleanor Coade (1733–1821) was the outstanding female entrepreneur of the eighteenth century, running her own successful business for some fifty years. Her name became a nationally recognized brand, and her firm's architectural and sculptural stoneware products are still ubiquitous.
Caroline Stanford
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Literary Festivals as Makers of the Global Novel
Literature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article argues that literary festivals are crucial agents in the contemporary global literary landscape, actively shaping the ‘global novel’ and the ‘global writer’. It contends that traditional literary criticism has understudied the role of cultural market agents like festivals, emphasizing instead the globalization of the novelistic ...
Ana Gallego Cuiñas
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 139-157, May 2025.Rutilius Namatianus’ poem De reditu suo was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western ...
Sophie Kultzen
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Recriando um passado imaginário: o “gothic revival” nas igrejas medievais de Norwich.
Revista Brasileira de História & Ciências Sociais, 2012 Este texto mostra alguns efeitos do chamado “revival gótico”, movimento artístico, literário e religioso da Inglaterra vitoriana em duas igrejas medievais de Norwich, na Grã-Bretanha.
Luís Mauro Sá Martino
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‘MORTAL FEAST’: Cannibal Capitalism Meets Covid‐19 in the Urban Peruvian Amazon
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 229-245, March 2025.Abstract This article presents a surrealist urban political ecology of cannibal capitalism in the zoonotic city. It does so through an account of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, which was the worst‐hit city in the world during this initial wave. Iquitos embodies multiple dimensions of zoonotic urbanization
Japhy Wilson
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Amateur Stained Glass in English Churches, 1830-80
19, 2020 Nineteenth-century English stained glass has produced a rich corpus of works mainly produced by the many large and well-known Victorian studios. One group of artisans who can add much to the current debate on nineteenth-century stained glass are amateurs.
Thomas Kupper
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Hugh Easton's Neo‐Baroque Art and the Stained‐Glass Closet in Postwar Britain*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 469-487, December 2024.Hugh Ray Easton (1906–1965) was a leading mid‐twentieth century British designer of stained‐glass windows. His works combined neo‐baroque style with an aesthetic that was attuned to glamour in contemporary media such as film and homoerotic physique magazines.
Jane Brocket, Dominic Janes
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