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Victorian Pornography versus Contemporary Pornography: Belinda Starling’s The Journal of Dora Damage (2008) and Women’s Agency and Emancipation.
(2016-11-16)Pornography is and has been a contentious issue in the Victorian past and in our contemporary societies, and the role of women in the business has been very much discussed by Victorian and contemporary critics and academics ... -
Vulnerability as potential: the search for agency in Deborah Levy’s _Hot Milk_ (2016)
(2019-07-04)Departing from Agamben’s idea of potentiality, I propose to explore this notion in connection to the critical term of vulnerability, to show that they are not that different as one could think at first. In order to do so, ... -
Weed-ing the Roots: Constructing Immigrant Identity in A.M. Bakalar’s Madame Mephisto (2012)
(2014-07-21)Poles are one of the three largest non-UK born ethnic groups in all countries and most regions of the United Kingdom. Since Poland’s accession to the European Union in May 2004, thousands of Poles have come to the UK in ... -
‘What’s done can’t be undone’: Verbal Contractions in Modern English.
(2024)The habit of contracting words originates in the intrinsic tendency of languages to assimilate the pronunciation of two neighbouring sounds. In Present-day English, this phenomenon is most plainly observed in the so-called ... -
Women’s Bodies and Emotions: Desertion, Illegitimacy and the Cambridge Union Workhouse in the late Victorian period.
(2023)Cambridge Union Workhouse was built a mile away from the city, surrounded by fields to avoid any interference with members of the University or with commercial life. The site was located at 81A, Milton Road, quite close ... -
"Write as we speake": on the question of spelling reform today
(2022)English has been characterised by the variability of its spelling throughout history, since it was only standardised by the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Other than its history of unstability, the resulting ...