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Adam Bede, Realism, the Past, and Readers in 1859

open access: yesEnglish Literature, 2019
This article gives an account of the immediate publication context of George Eliot’s first novel, Adam Bede, in terms of competing opportunities for leisure, anxieties about the reading of fiction, the publishing industry, and the social and political
Marshall, Gail
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Aesthetic Cognition

open access: yesEnglish Literature, 2017
How did eighteenth-century British authors encounter, and respond to, this question: are we able to feel the emotions of other people? How did the dominance of empirical epistemology shape their responses?
Mckeon, Michael
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Starving by Numbers

open access: yesEnglish Literature, 2015
This essay argues that Alton Locke (1850) by Charles Kingsley might be read as a response to a tension that emerged, in the nineteenth century, between the imperatives of political economy and medicine.
Mangham, Andrew S.
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‘#DifferenceMakesUs’: Selling Shakespeare Online (and the Commerce Platform Etsy)

open access: yesEnglish Literature, 2018
The mission statement of the online creative commerce platform Etsy declares its commitment to “using the power of business to strengthen communities and empower people”.
Anna, Blackwell
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Quality Assessment in Legal Translation. A Case Study

open access: yesRomanian Journal of English Studies, 2022
This paper represents a case study of the translation of a criminal conclusion from Romanian into English. It resorts to the American Translation Association translation evaluation system to detail on the categories/ types of errors made and to evaluate ...
Pungă Loredana, Ungurean Denisa
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Of Lords and Stars

open access: yesEnglish Literature, 2014
The essay argues that glittering tribute to Essex in the Prothalamion is ambivalent and paradoxical. The author focuses on the Ovidian and Virgilian intertexts of the praise and brings to light Spenser’s hidden references to Lucifer and Phaethon ...
Grimaldi-Pizzorno, Patrizia
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Literary Reception as an Indicator of Overall Cultural Relations Between Two Countries

open access: yesRomanian Journal of English Studies, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that literary reception follows the development of overall cultural interactions between two countries. To that aim, a comparison will be drawn between the reception of interwar English literature in Serbia and
Francuski Biljana Djoric
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Narrative Suspense in Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Hitchcock

open access: yesEnglish Literature, 2018
This article explores the construction of narrative suspense in Edgar Allan Poe’s and Alfred Hitchcock’s works. Central to their creations is a dual narrative structure that builds tension by articulating two stories in one. Narratological analyses of
Indrusiak, Elaine
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Contemporary Poetic Ecologies and a Return to Form

open access: yesC21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2016
Ecology is currently coming under increasing poetic scrutiny in a range of terms (landscape, place, environment). Critical responses to this poetry commonly assume a relationship between form and content, wherein textual ecology – the shape of the poem ...
Daniel Weston
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Remembering Into Being: Ecowomanism, Womanist Theology, and Memory

open access: yesRomanian Journal of English Studies, 2022
The paper investigates the ecowomanist memory work based on context, integration, and relationality evoking a strategy of bonding through remembering.
Gaál-Szabó Peter
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