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A diachronic study of the conative alternation construction in english
(2017-06-05)The conative alternation is a subtype of transitivity alternation in which there is a transitive variant and an intransitive one represented with an at-construction. From a syntactic point of view, it occurs with transitive ... -
"A Journey into History: Eastern Europe as a Liminal Landscape in Joyce Carol Oates' Short Stories"
(2013-12-03)This paper approaches a selection of Joyce Carol Oates’ short stories about the post-war Eastern Europe from the perspective of liminality. In the stories, Oates takes her readers for a tour of a world that no longer exists, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An analysis of the hipster (sub)culture and Its reflection in HBO’s TV series girls
(2018-11-12)According to the casting call posted by Lena Dunham at Backstage.com, one feels tempted to classify the TV series Girls as a hipster show automatically. In fact, this is what its creators and producers have been trying to ... -
An Approach to (Vulner)able Women in Paula Hawkins’s Novels
(2018-11-15)The notion of vulnerability has had a very prolific role in the last years, as the term has been applied to many and varied fields of research, being contemporary literature one of them. Taking Emmanuel Lévinas’s notion ... -
Assessing the Provenance of Constantinus Afrianus' Venerabilis Anatomia in London, MS Wellcome 290 (ff. 1r-41v)
(2014-10-03)MS Wellcome 290 is housed in the Wellcome Library in London. Referenced MS Wellcome 290, it is entitled Pseudo-Galen, Claudius, 131 – 201, and it comprises 56 folios of which, the last three, are blank (Moorat 1962: 186). ... -
Bodies in Transit: Re-thinking vulnerability and resistance in post-colonial neo-Victorian literature and culture
(2019-11-18)The aim of my participation in this round table is to make an approach to an analysis of contemporary historical fiction through the lens of theories of vulnerability and resistance. In particular, I would like to address ... -
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 ... -
Cambridge Female Refuge Rules (1838-1844): An Institution for "Females Who Have Been Leading a Sinful Course of Life"
(2019-06-25)The Cambridge Female Refuge was an institution established in Cambridge Church Street in 1838 as a House of Mercy for the moral rescue of fallen women. Prostitution was a serious preoccupation at the time for both town and ... -
Cambridge Prostitution and the Rules Governing the University Spinning House in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
(2017-04-19)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 ... -
Claude Cahun, creadora y observadora inconformista
(2016-12-01)A Claude Cahun se la conoce todavía hoy más en los medios artísticos por sus fotografías y collages que en los literarios por sus textos innovadores, desde los ensayos-poema, autoficciones cercanas a la novela de aventuras ... -
“Constructing selfhood and otherness in the East-West context"
(2018-06-11)Since his debut in 2002, Gary Shteyngart, a Russian-American author of Jewish extraction has not only garnered popularity among readers, but also inspired critical interest from reviewers and scholars. While Shteyngart’s ... -
Cultural Haunting and the Trace of the Colonial Other in Arthur Conan Doyle's Short Fiction
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Detective Fiction and the Neo-Victorian: Sexual Violence, Morality and Rescue Work in Lee Jackson’s The Last Pleasure Garden (2007)
(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
(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 ... -
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; ...