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“I Was Never So Unmanned Before”: (Emasculating) Imperialism and the Late Victorian Crisis of Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle Fiction
(2015-07-14)The Victorian Fin de Siècle was a period characterized by decay, anxiety and identity fragmentation. Within the convolution of race, gender and class which was evinced in those decades, the crisis of masculinity outstands ... -
Aspectos lexicográficos de la correspondencia interlingüística de términos éticos y de evaluación subjetiva
(2015-07-21)Sólo han pasado unas décadas desde que Grace Kelly enamorara al mundo occidental luciendo un práctico y estético pañuelo que protegía su peinado mientras conducía su descapotable. Y todavía sigue vigente en parte de la ... -
The role of self-concept and expectations in academic achievement: A preliminary study
(2015-09-23)As early career students face new challenges at university, the relationship between L2 skills and academic success depends upon self-perception to a greater extent than previously assumed. Up to the moment, most levelling ... -
Juan Latino "El Negro": Poet and Humanist
(2015-10-05)The article explores the historical novel written by José V. Pascual about the life and Works of Juan Latino "El Negro" focusing on the humanism of this black poet and professor and his contributions to the Afro-spanish ... -
Adverbials and inversion in early english scientific writing
(2015-11-13)From a historical perspective, the English language shifted from being basically verb final in the Old English period (Traugott 1992: 274) to verb non-final from the Middle English period onwards (Fischer 1992: 371), that ... -
"'It is not exactly that bad': on the use of the intensifiers this and that in english
(2015-11-13)The intensifying function of the adverbs this and that can be traced back to the 14th century, when they just appeared in combination with gradable scalar adjectives like big ¿ small, good ¿ bad, easy ¿ difficult, etc. ... -
Tracing the Edwardian Artist in Contemporary Fiction
(2015-11-18)This paper deals with different representations of artists from the beginning of the 20th century in recent fiction written in English. -
Medieval medical recipes in London, Wellcome Library, MSS 404 and 5262
(2015-11-26)This paper seeks to explore the similarities between different unidentified texts, chiefly London, Wellcome Library MSS 404 and 5262, which are catalogued as a leechbook and a recipe collection, respectively. For the ... -
Reinventing Female Fashion: From Victorian Apparel to Steampunk Expression of the Self
(2015-11-30)First impressions have always been said to be extremely important in most situations. Traditionally, outfit is linked to one’s conception of the society one lives in. Some scholars, such as Roberts, argue that fashion was ... -
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 ... -
The Enemy Within’: Liminality, Otherness and Neo-Victorian Gypsies
(2016-01-13)Gypsies, or Romanies, are a collective against whom, for centuries, white Europeans have posited a series of racial prejudices and stereotypes. Qualified alternatively as criminals, child kidnappers, or tricksters, gypsies ... -
Travelblogs and Evidentiality
(2016-01-29)Travelblogs are one of the most profitable discursive subgenres on Web 2.0. Multimodal texts of this cybergenre created by expert travellers have kept the functions, topics, and some of the discursive and linguistic ... -
Building up uniqueness within institutional, tourism-related home pages
(2016-02-01)Institutional web sites put together and display a country image which represents a “decisive business card” as stated by Bonhomme & Stalder (2006, 1). Beerli & Martin (2004, 3) detail the dimensions and attributes of the ... -
Death in the Spinning House: Cambridge Prostitution and University Regulations by the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
(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 ... -
On the Decline of Pleonastic "that" in Late Middle English and Early Modern English
(2016-04-21)The origin of pleonastic that can be traced back to Old English where it could appear in syntactic constructions consisting of a preposition + demonstrative pronoun (i.e. for þy þat, for þæm þe) or a subordinator (i.e. oþ ... -
Analysing coercion in stative progressives in the Indian variety of the International Corpus of English (ICE).
(2016-04-21)Coercion is defined as “a semantic transformation that involves shifting of one type to another” (Pustejovsky, 1991), being a prototypical case the change from state to activity represented by the use of the progressive ... -
By way of vs. by means of: on the Expression of Instrumentality in Middle English and Early Modern English
(2016-04-21)Grammaticalization is defined as “a process whereby a lexical item, with full referential meaning, develops grammatical meaning” (Fischer and Rosenbach 2000: 2; see also Hopper 1991; Diewald and Wischer 2002). According ... -
Trois concepts boétiens dans la réflexion féminine, du XIVe au XVIIIe siècle
(2016-07-15)Boecio introdujo cambios notables en la consideración de algunas nociones filosóficas y teológicas, en particular en las de «persona», «esencia» y «eternidad». Estudio la evolución de estas tres ideas, representadas en ... -
Adapting Victorian Gypsies for the Screen: Ethnicity, Otherness and (In)visibility in Neo-Victorian Popular Film
(2016-09-06)This paper aims at analysing the presence of gypsy characters in two neo-Victorian popular films, namely Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman (2010) and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows (2011). The cultural construction ... -
Revisiting the origin and development of pleonastic that in English
(2016-09-21)The origin of pleonastic that can be traced back to Old English where it could appear in syntactic constructions consisting of a preposition + demonstrative pronoun (i.e. for þy þat, for þæm þe) or a subordinator (i.e. oþ ...