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“A Thing Of Dreams And Desires, A Siren, A Whisper, And A Seduction”: Mermaids and the seashore in H. G. Wells’s The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine

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Alder, E. (2021)
“A Thing Of Dreams And Desires, A Siren, A Whisper, And A Seduction”: Mermaids and the seashore in H. G. Wells’s The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine. Shima, 15(2), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.21463/shima.142
The Sea Lady (1901) is one of the more neglected early novels of H. G. Wells, particularly compared to his more famous scientific romances. Both a social satire and a mediatio...

The Implicated Neoliberal Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge

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Stacy, I., & Keeble, A. (2022)
The Implicated Neoliberal Subject in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge. Journal of American Studies, 56(2), 320-347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187582100058X
This article argues that in Bleeding Edge, Pynchon moves from an oppositional schema in which the world is divided into elect and preterite populations towards one that is con...

Annotating the Everyday in a Modernist Scholarly Edition

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Thomson, T. (2020)
Annotating the Everyday in a Modernist Scholarly Edition. Modernist Cultures, 15(1), 92-109. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2020.0281
This article interrogates current approaches to the annotation of scholarly editions in order to reframe annotation practice within an emerging ‘new modernist editing’. Using ...

H. G. Wells and J. B. Pinker: Previously Unpublished Correspondence Concerning Conrad

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Dryden, L. (2019)
H. G. Wells and J. B. Pinker: Previously Unpublished Correspondence Concerning Conrad. Conradian, 44(2), 37-58
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Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism

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Lyall, S. (2019)
Minor Modernisms: The Scottish Renaissance and the Translation of German-language Modernism. Modernist Cultures, 14(2), 213-235. https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2019.0251
Germany has been epitomised in the twentieth century as Britain’s main rival and adversary. Yet Scottish modernists were influenced by Germany and German-language modernism to...

Joseph Conrad: Transnational Identity in the Fictions of Empire

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Dryden, L. (2019)
Joseph Conrad: Transnational Identity in the Fictions of Empire. L'Epoque Conradienne, 41,
Professor Linda Dryden Joseph Conrad was a writer who crossed national boundaries both in his personal life and in his writing, particularly in his early Malay tales and in He...

Atlantic exchanges: The poetics of dispersal and disposal in Scottish and Caribbean seas

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Campbell, A. (2019)
Atlantic exchanges: The poetics of dispersal and disposal in Scottish and Caribbean seas. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(2), 195-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2019.1590622
This article offers a series of readings of poets from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean whose works make visible the otherwise invisible and offshore narratives of marine wast...

Extractive Poetics: Marine Energies in Scottish Literature

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Campbell, A. (2019)
Extractive Poetics: Marine Energies in Scottish Literature. Humanities, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010016
Following the recent call to ‘put the ocean’s agitation and historicity back onto our mental maps and into the study of literature’ (Yaeger 2010), this article addresses the h...

Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells (eds), Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema

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Artt, S. (2018)
Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells (eds), Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema. Screen, 59(4), 556-558. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjy050

‘The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence’ by Cairns Craig

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Lyall, S. (2018)
‘The Wealth of the Nation: Scotland, Culture and Independence’ by Cairns Craig. The Bottle Imp,