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Northern Irish fiction (2018)
Book Chapter
Magennis, C. (2018). Northern Irish fiction. In D. O'Gorman, & R. Eaglestone (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction (190-198). Routledge (Taylor & Francis). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315880235-18

The period following the Good Friday Agreement has seen a marked increase in fiction, particularly collections of short stories, by women. This writing extends and develops the tradition of Northern Irish women’s writing which, since the inception of... Read More about Northern Irish fiction.

'"Monster top-knots and balloon chignons" : purity and contamination in the false hair trade (2018)
Book Chapter
Allan, J. (2018). '"Monster top-knots and balloon chignons" : purity and contamination in the false hair trade. In S. Heaton (Ed.), A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire (1800-1920). London: Bloomsbury

Writing the hidden histories of the “things” that sit at the heart of thing theory, early advocates such as Elaine Freedgood (2006) and John Plotz (2009) have revealed the social and historical, personal and imperial significance of seemingly mundane... Read More about '"Monster top-knots and balloon chignons" : purity and contamination in the false hair trade.

Suffragettes and the Serjeant at Arms : how the suffragettes used performative tactics of protest in and around the Houses of Parliament (2018)
Book Chapter
Neylon, C. (2018). Suffragettes and the Serjeant at Arms : how the suffragettes used performative tactics of protest in and around the Houses of Parliament. In M. Inchley, & J. Vice (Eds.), Amending Speech: Women's voices in parliament (256-261). London: Hansard

From plays written specifically for the cause to huge processions through the streets of UK cities, the British woman suffrage movement relied on spectacle and performance as a key tactic in the fight for votes for women. However, they also employed... Read More about Suffragettes and the Serjeant at Arms : how the suffragettes used performative tactics of protest in and around the Houses of Parliament.

The disturbance of images (2018)
Book Chapter
Vivian, P. (2018). The disturbance of images. In E. McInnes, & D. Schaub (Eds.), What Happened? Re-presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries (68-81). Leiden, Boston: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004385931_006

This study explores the appropriation of images, their fracture and unmaking in relation to the practice of collage. It attempts to identify a means of articulating the relationship of trauma occurring within an image, a trauma that results from the... Read More about The disturbance of images.

In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis (2018)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2018). In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis. In M. Bull, & G. Pasquino (Eds.), Italy Transformed: Politics, Society and Institutions at the End of the Great Recession (13-28). Abingdon, UK: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

The eurozone crisis had a more significant and longer-lasting impact on Italy than on virtually any other member state, with the effects still visible a decade after. The extent of the shock was surprising in view of progress Italy had apparently mad... Read More about In the eye of the storm : the Italian economy and the eurozone crisis.

Introduction : Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism? (2018)
Book Chapter
Bull, M., & Pasquino, G. (2018). Introduction : Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism?. In M. Bull, & G. Pasquino (Eds.), Italy Transformed: Politics, Society and Institutions at the End of the Great Recession (1-12). Abingdon, UK: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

Italian politics have undergone momentous changes in the 2007-2017 decade under the impact of the eurozone crisis, whose peak in 2011-2013 could be equated to the earlier watershed years of 1992-1994. The lasting impact of the upheaval in Italian pol... Read More about Introduction : Italian politics in an era of recession : the end of bipolarism?.

A young-old face : out with the new and in with the old (2018)
Book Chapter
Hewett, R. (2018). A young-old face : out with the new and in with the old. In A. O'Day (Ed.), Twelfth Night: Adventures in Time and Space with Peter Capaldi (13-27). London: I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury

Defiant Confrontation (2018)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2018). Defiant Confrontation. In H. Reckitt (Ed.), Art of Feminism : Images That Shaped the Fight for Equality, 1857-2017. San Francisco, USA: Chronicle Books / Tate Publishing, London

An in-depth discussion of the 1988 exhibition, "Along the Lines of Resistance", at Rochdale Art Gallery, and artist Chila Kumari Burman's diptych "Convenience, Not Love", 1985. Themes discussed include South Asian migration to Britain, feminist exhib... Read More about Defiant Confrontation.

“No one ever sees the Angel" : adapting The Phantom of the Opera (2018)
Book Chapter
McMurtry, L. (2018). “No one ever sees the Angel" : adapting The Phantom of the Opera. In L. Raw (Ed.), Adapted from the Original : Essays on the Value and Values of Works Remade for a New Medium (41-58). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company

From zero problems with neighbors to zero neighbors without problems : Turkish-Iranian relations before and after the Syrian Crisis (2018)
Book Chapter
Pieper, M. (2018). From zero problems with neighbors to zero neighbors without problems : Turkish-Iranian relations before and after the Syrian Crisis. In P. O. Amour (Ed.), The Middle East Reloaded : Revolutionary Changes, Power Dynamics, and Regional Rivalries Since the Arab Spring. Academica Press

Turkish-Iranian relations are the product of overlapping tapestries of sometimes competing, and partially converging national identities and interests. It is Turkey’s location at a geopolitical crossroads that informed Turkey’s ‘Zero problems with ne... Read More about From zero problems with neighbors to zero neighbors without problems : Turkish-Iranian relations before and after the Syrian Crisis.

Fiction from Northern Ireland, 1921-2015 (2018)
Book Chapter
Magennis, C. (2018). Fiction from Northern Ireland, 1921-2015. In C. O'Gallchoir, & H. Ingman (Eds.), A History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature (365-382). Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Stylistics : studying literary and everyday style in English (2018)
Book Chapter
McIntyre, D., & Price, H. (2018). Stylistics : studying literary and everyday style in English. In A. Hewings, P. Seargeant, & S. Pihlaja (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies (327-344). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351001724-23

Stylistics is often defined as the linguistic study of style in language. Style arises from motivated choice and choices have consequences. Stylistic analysis necessitates both linguistic description and an assessment of the interpretative consequenc... Read More about Stylistics : studying literary and everyday style in English.