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Crafting, Collecting, and Clubbing in the Victorian Drawing Room
In her volume Inside the Victorian Home (2003), Judith Flanders scrutinizes the space of home and domesticity as a microcosm of the ideal society of the nineteenth century. Considering Flanders’ ideas as a point of departure, ... -
Creation of a large news corpus for the discourse analysis of Violence Against Women (VAW)
The press is considered to play a fundamental social role, as it shapes public opinion. In this regard, CDA Critical discourse analysis (CDA) has as a primary aim to study “the way social power abuse, dominance, and ... -
Cultural Haunting and the Trace of the Colonial Other in Arthur Conan Doyle's Short Fiction
Martin-Gonzalez, Juan Jose
(2017-09-28)
In Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain (2002), Susheila Nasta argues that “the arrival in Britain of several generations of black and Asian 'immigrants' in the period following decolonization and ... -
Danger and Disability: The Female Body of Miniature in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Pettersson, Lin Elinor (2018-11-21)
Neo-Victorian reimaginations of the freak simultanously repeat and reject the binaries of normalcy and deviance to criticise the exploitative and objectifying conventions of nineteenth-century enfreakment practices. This ... -
Death in the Spinning House: Cambridge Prostitution and University Regulations by the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Romero-Ruiz, Maria Isabel (2016-04-19)
The aim of this paper is to analyse the situation of prostitution in Cambridge and its regulation by the middle of the nineteenth century based on archival research. Cambridge Universitiy was characterised at the time by ... -
“Del mito matriarcal a la matrifocalidad a través de la literatura anglo-nigeriana”
(2021-09)Algunos autores definen el matriarcado africano en función a reglas de sucesión y herencia, mientras que otros definen dicho concepto basándose en la unidad matricentrada en la madre. A la hora de tratar el matriarcado ... -
Detective Fiction and the Neo-Victorian: Sexual Violence, Morality and Rescue Work in Lee Jackson’s The Last Pleasure Garden (2007)
Romero-Ruiz, Maria Isabel (2014-09-30)
In his third Inspector Decimus Webb novel, a detective from Scotland Yard, Jackson Lee re-appropriates the crime-fiction genre to portray several stories of gender abuse and violence. Several women become the victims of ... -
Digital Editing of Early Modern English Handwritten Texts: Handling Scribal Errors and Corrections
Esteban-Segura, Maria Laura (2017-11-21)
An important philological question is how to edit texts. An edition always entails interpretation of the text and also of the socio-cultural context in which the manuscript was created and used. In new philological theory, ... -
Distinguishing neo-Edwardianism from neo-Victorianism
(2014-12-01)Ever since the 1930s, with Vita Sackville-West’s The Edwardians (1930), representations of the Edwardian period can be found in British fiction. However, those have evolved throughout the years, as neo-Edwardian novels ... -
“Domesticating ‘Fallen Women’: Gender Violence and Detection in Lee Jackson’s A Metropolitan Murder (2004)”
Romero-Ruiz, Maria Isabel (2022-09-12)
Poverty and prostitution were some of the most important concerns for the Victorian mind and lots of associations and charities were established by the middle-class who tried to put an end to what was known as the “Great ... -
Early modern english scientific text types: different levels of linguistic complexity?
(2017-06-05)Complexity was first defined by Simon as hierarchies of different elements originating from simplicity (1962: 468). In Linguistics, Givon (2009) has analysed syntactic complexity from the point of view of language typology; ... -
Eastern Europe as a Liminal Space in the Life and Fiction of Philip Roth
Bryla, Martyna Marika (2013-10-25)
In the present paper, the concept of liminality is applied to study the portrayal and significance of the post-war Eastern Europe, and Czechoslovakia in particular, in the life and fiction of one of the best contemporary ... -
Editing The Cure of Bytyng in London, Wellcome Library, MS 411 (ff. 56r-61r)
Esteban-Segura, Maria Laura (2022)
London, Wellcome Library, MS 411 is a codex in one volume which houses a collection of practical treatises and tracts in English and Latin, in verse as well as in prose, on different topics including prognostications, ... -
El empleo de las actividades de mentoría entre iguales
Yelamos-Guerra, Maria Salome (2020-10-19)
Este capítulo trata sobre el rol de los mentores en la enseñanza superior universitaria en la enseñanza del inglés como medio de instrucción. Esta investigación se desarrolla dentro del marco de un Proyecto de Innovación ... -
Elevator pitch: an english-spanish sociolinguistic analysis
Taillefer-de-Haya, Lidia (2018-10-05)
Análisis contrastivo en inglés y español del Elevator Pitch desde una perspectiva sociolingüística, basado en los programas televisivos Dragon's Den y Tu Oportunidad. -
ELF Pedagogy in Spain and the UK
Pineda-Hernandez, Inmaculada Concepcion (2018-09-05)
Our research project shows that exposing ELT practitioners to language change and to reflective attitudes towards language and towards new developments in ELT methodology can in return help them envisage an ELF aware ... -
Émotions, terrorisme, tourisme. Le cas de la Côte d'Azur
Cortes-Zaborras, Carmen (2018-04-30)
Confrontés à l’incertitude et la peur provoquées par les attaques terroristes, les agents de l’activité touristique réagissent de façon diverse. Le refoulement des émotions, la mise en discours des mesures de prévention ... -
English as a lingua franca in higher education: local perspectives of a global phenomenon. The case study of the University of Málaga
Pineda-Hernandez, Inmaculada Concepcion (2018-05-16)
English as a Lingua Franca in higher education: Local perspectives of a global phenomenon. The case study of the University of Málaga PINEDA, INMACULADA (Universidad de Málaga) This presentation introduces the main ... -
Entre objectivité et subjectivité, le tourisme de santé et de bien-être sur le web
Cortes-Zaborras, Carmen (2017-05-29)
Internet es una de las fuentes principales de información para preparar viajes y estancias. Los sitios web y los documentos digitales creados por las empresas generadoras de servicios turísticos, del mismo modo que los ... -
Erased identities: Marita Conlon’s The Magdalen (1999)
(2015-12-15)Following postmodernist and trauma studies discourses our aim here is to analyse Marita Colon’s novel in which she gives voice to a fictional character, Esther, as representative of those Irish women who were sent to a ...