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This paper argues that the Rwanda Policy was the continuation of a populist contagion process that is leading to a longer-lasting radicalization of the UK Conservatives. It examines leading Conservative politicians (Johnson, Sunak, Braverman, Patel, Cleverly), showing how they incorporated all elements of populist radical right narratives (i.e. people-centrism, anti-elitism, popular sovereignty, authoritarianism and nativism) in their justification of the offshoring policy. The study contributes to the literature on populism by empirically mapping the “when”, “how” and “why” of populist narratives incorporation, particularly in relation to the obfuscation of racism. It evidences the extent of influence that populist ideas can exert on mainstream parties regardless of the marginal electoral success of their original proponents. The study also contributes to the literature on British Politics by providing an analysis of the Rwanda policy and highlighting how dynamics of populist contagion at the party level are shaping the UK’s approach to asylum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: During 280 years of studies of the anatomy of the distal tibiofibular articulation, there have arisen many unclear issues regarding the description of individual structures and their terminology. These historical inaccuracies were subsequently reflected in the clinical practice. Materials and methods: A literature search of original publications and historical sources was performed. Results: The distal tibiofibular articulation is a synovial joint, rather than a syndesmosis, as it is an integral part of the ankle joint. The interosseous tibiofibular ligament (ITFL), described for the first time by a French anatomist Bichat in 1801, is the strongest ligament of the tibiofibular mortise. Unfortunately, this clinically important ligament is not recognized by the current international anatomical nomenclature. The terms anterior inferior (AITFL) and posterior inferior tibiofibular ligaments (PITFL) are historical remnants "reimported" from the American/British literature and should not be used, because the analogous superior ligaments do not exist. The intermalleolar ligament, first described by Weitbrecht in 1742, is a variable, but constant, structure reinforcing the posterior capsule of the ankle joint. The term inferior transverse ligament (IFT) denoting in the English literature the inferior part of the posterior tibiofibular ligament was originally used for the intermalleolar ligament. The IFT ligament is a part of the posterior tibiofibular ligament and there is no reason to stress its importance. Conclusion: The chaos in the anatomy, terminology and depiction of the articulation of the distal tibia and fibula, unparalleled in any other joint of the human body, is the result of historical development. A certain negative role was, in this respect, played also by Basiliensia Nomina Anatomica (1895), that eradicated ITFL and called the distal tibiofibular joint a syndesmosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brigid Brophy is not easily situated in postwar British literary history. The work of this public intellectual of the 1960s does not fit comfortably on either side of divisions between ‘experimental’ or ‘realist’ postwar literary fiction that have been used by some scholars to understand both the aesthetic distinctions between texts and how postwar writers understood themselves. Recent years have seen a wellspring of new interest in Brophy’s novel In Transit (1969), in which the author’s efforts to realise in literary form ‘ambivalence’ as ‘essence’ reveal a new way of understanding the development of the British novel of the postwar period. In this novel preoccupied with the textual and graphic nature of literary character – and indeed all discursive positions – metonymy is both a common trope and a structuring principle. Employed as a heuristic, metonymy reveals that narratorial decisions about pronouns have ontological effects. Brophy’s metonymic principle illuminates a shift in understandings of the relationships between indexical language and the materiality of its referent in postwar British literature, including the perhaps unexpected aesthetic and political affordances of ostensible ‘failures’ of integration, determinacy, and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The obituary published in "Indonesia & the Malay World" mourns the passing of Vladimir Braginsky, a globally renowned expert in traditional Malay literature. Born in Moscow in 1945, Braginsky was a prolific scholar who made significant contributions to the field of Malay literature. His work spanned various aspects of literary studies, including translations, anthologies, and theoretical models. Braginsky's legacy is celebrated for his dedication to scholarship and his profound impact on the understanding of Malay literature. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the contributions of several scholars in the field of eighteenth-century British literature, particularly in the areas of Laurence Sterne, Maria Edgeworth, and the intersection of literature with history and digital humanities. Topics include the study of Sterne's reception in eighteenth-century publications, the digital Maria Edgeworth Letters Project, and the exploration of literary history through printed forms and typographical analysis.

This article examines depictions of interracial violence in Andrea Levy's Small Island to argue that the novel challenges the ways that interraciality is mobilized as a symbol of progress. By examining tropes of black edibility and white consumption, this article situates the duality of attraction and repulsion white characters feel for black characters within libidinal economies of racialized desire and power. Through an analysis of main protagonist Queenie's anti-blackness towards her black friends, lovers, and child, this article argues that love and affection themselves are implicated within racialized economies of power and an anti-black desirability politics that seeks to possess and destroy black people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How did the rise of cinema affect authorship in Britain? This essay examines the question in relation to both new and established writers. Referring to manuals of authorship and fiction writing as well as to the archives of the Society of Authors, it places the rise of cinema after 1906 in the context of the wider "Americanization" of the British culture industry and illustrates the ways in which cinema drove changes to readerly expectation, advertising, and the marketing of literature. It also examines how the business of writing for the cinema came to be incorporated into the broadly professionalized concept of "authorship." In addition to drawing from the experiences of fiction writers including W. Somerset Maugham, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Elinor Glyn, Arnold Bennet, and Edgar Jepson, it also considers cinema authors, Herbert Langford Reed and Eliot Stannard, who sought to integrate screenwriting with the other disciplines traditionally described by the term authorship, widening our sense of what that category might mean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article charts the historical and literary origins of the schnorrer, a Yiddish term for 'proud beggar' and a character of Eastern European Jewish culture. It aims to shed light on the schnorrer's entrance as a protagonist in British popular literature in the work of Israel Zangwill, and to show its originality. To do so, it focuses mainly on the novella The King of Schnorrers (1894), in which the schnorrer holds the leading role, and on Children of the Ghetto (1892), in which the schnorrer is a secondary and yet essential character. By locating the schnorrer outside of the Ashkenazi ethno-social context, Zangwill carries out a refashioning of this figure and grounds him in a wider social and literary lineage. He turns him into a literary character who challenges Western capitalist societies, thanks to a multi-layered identity, conflicting contexts and plural literary genres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay explores recent work of Zadie Smith ('The Embassy if Cambodia', 2013, and 'The Lazy River', 2019) and David Szalay (All That Man Is, 2016), as examples of BrexLit fiction, a term coined by Kristian Shaw to denote 'fictions that either directly respond or imaginatively allude, to Britain's exit from the EU'. In contrast to the nineteenth century state-of-the-nation novel, which drew upon the liberal-humanist resources of the novel to intervene in public debates, I contend that a significant strand of contemporary BrexLit reflects a crisis not simply within but rather of the public sphere. Accordingly, my case studies hit upon the limits of the liberal literary tradition and they do so precisely as a means to explore the deficiencies of the mainstream liberal response to populism. Drawing on Chantal Mouffe's post-political thesis – the argument that the representative systems of European democracies have capitulated to a technocratic-centrist inertia based on the idea that there is no alternative to neoliberal globalization – this essay claims that BrexLit offers a generic framework for thinking through an alternative agonistic imagination; a way of thinking and writing that offers a way for redeeming an illiberal politics for progressive rather than reactionary ends. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that the post-war experimental British novel helps theorise a response towards the aesthetics of representation and ethics of connection with 'invisible,' migrant characters through the aesthetic of defamiliarisation. Turning to Christine Brooke-Rose's 1964 avant-garde novel Out, I contend that the novel provides a defamiliarising, non-sentimental response to what Lyndsey Stonebridge calls the 'placeless condition' of the mid-twentieth century. Through a close reading of Out's estranging practices, I demonstrate that the novel's narrative choices become both a modality of non-sympathetic representation and a politically potent critique of the placeless condition through the narratological foregrounding of typically unnoticeable non-human entities. That these narrative choices, in fact, enable an engagement with the character's perspective, suggests that the process of 'staying with the estranging' also constitutes an ethical practice of acknowledgement and connection with an 'invisible' character, away from emotional identification. By centring my analysis on defamiliarisation, I also trace a trajectory between Viktor Shklovsky's Formalist thinking and Brooke-Rose's literary work, investigating more specifically the heretofore unexamined, yet crucial, imbrication of labour and affective estrangement as readerly practices that defamiliarisation encourages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus has been the object of multiple afterlives since Richard Brinsley Peake's Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein was staged in 1823. Over the past two centuries, literary, dramatic, and multimedia adaptations of the novel have certainly fulfilled Mary Shelley's hope that her 'hideous progeny' might 'go forth and prosper'. In both highbrow and lowbrow revisitations, however, it is usually the Creature that undergoes various metamorphic processes. This article focuses on a different metamorphosis of Shelley's novel, Peter Ackroyd's The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2008), which refashions the story of the creator. Victor's ambition and his downfall abandon Ingolstadt and the sublime landscapes of Mont Blanc to be re-located in nineteenth-century England, where the scientist finds his alterego in Percy Bysshe Shelley and meets his own creator, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. After discussing the novel in the context of postmodern theory, I contend that Ackroyd's taste for pastiche has several implications. His Casebook rests on a complex narrative palimpsest made of allusions, which transforms the conventions of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Gothic novels and provides a negotiated version of their tropes that is simultaneously 'Neo-Gothic' and 'Neo-Romantic'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The evolution of feminist themes in 20th-century British English literature reflects the shifting social, political, and cultural landscape for women during this period. As the century progressed, authors began to challenge traditional gender roles, bringing women's voices, struggles, and aspirations to the forefront of literary discourse. Early 20th-century literature grappled with the suffrage movement and the quest for women's political rights, as seen in the works of writers like Virginia Woolf. With her groundbreaking texts, Woolf explored themes of female autonomy, mental health, and the constraints of patriarchal structures. As feminism developed over the decades, mid-century authors such as Doris Lessing and Angela Carter examined deeper complexities, including the intersections of gender with class, race, and sexuality. Their works questioned societal norms and presented alternative narratives of female identity and empowerment. By the late 20th century, feminist literature had fully embraced a postmodern sensibility, blending elements of surrealism and speculative fiction to challenge not only gender hierarchies but also the fundamental structures of power in society. This study is pivotal in shaping contemporary feminist thought, offering new ways of understanding women's roles in a rapidly changing world. Ultimately, 20th-century British literature became a vibrant platform for exploring feminist themes, revealing the tensions between tradition and progress and creating space for the diverse voices of women to emerge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey (1847) is about many things: chief among them is kindness. In this short novel, the words 'kind' and 'kindness' appear over 50 times. In the course of the work, we are brought to see that kindness is not a weak flame over which the downtrodden can warm their hands a little but rather a bonfire of a life force, the source of social good, and between Agnes Grey and Edward Weston, mutual kindness—specifically the shared valuing of kindness itself—ignites eros. As Marianne Thormӓhlen rightly observed, 'Agnes Grey's falling in love with Mr Weston is erotically charged in ways which present-day readers easily overlook'. I want to argue that this erotic charge is an intensification of currents of feeling that characterise Agnes's whole narrative. The way Agnes describes, late in the novel, the pressure of her lover's hand could also describe her experiences of kindness, both given and received, throughout her life: 'emphatic, yet gentle'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the issue of identifying the most efficient methods for preparing and delivering university lectures. Despite being the oldest instructional approach, lectures remain widely employed in universities worldwide. However, recent pedagogical research by Ukrainian scholars has not fully explored this matter, hindering the development of practical guidelines for instructors aiming to organize and deliver effective lecture courses. The article aims to provide insights into best practices, methodologies, and strategies that contribute to the effectiveness of lectures, ultimately leading to improved educational outcomes in higher educational institutions. The following research methods were used to solve the assigned tasks: theoretical - analysis of scientific sources, pedagogical and teaching-methodical materials, comparison; empirical - generalization of pedagogical experience. The results are the following. In the article we underscore the significance of establishing learning objectives, precise timing and structuring, reducing content volume, outlining lecture notes, careful selection of examples, and the lecturer's adaptability. Additionally, the authors highlight the importance of understanding the main stages of delivering a lecture, recognizing the nuances of maintaining students' effective attention, and involving them in active learning practices. The article provides practical recommendations for lecturers based on the reviewed sources and the authors' experience, accompanied by precautionary remarks. These precautions include avoiding the simultaneous use of numerous types of illustrative material and an excess of visual aids such as PowerPoint presentations. Such practices can lead to cognitive overload, as different processing forms may interfere with one another. The present study has explored the challenges and opportunities of effective lecturing in higher education, drawing on the insights from the British and American literature review and the empirical data collected from Ukrainian lecturers and students. Moreover, the article endeavors to conduct a more methodical analysis of efficacious techniques for preparing lectures, encompassing the critical stages of presentation. Furthermore, the present study seeks to delve into the nuances of captivating students' effective attention and involving them through practices associated with active learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article attends to recent examples of British estate literature, a literary form which extends across disparate genres and media. In general, estate literature attempts to correct pernicious prejudices about communities centred on the council estate, stereotypes which align classist, racist, and sexist rhetoric to marginalise this population. In addition to locating recent examples of estate literature – Caleb Femi's, Poor (2020), Anders Lustgarten's The Seven Acts of Mercy (2016), and Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City (2018) – amidst this socio-economic context, this paper also identifies the various formal features these works draw upon to generate a collective voice which at once rejects the othering of the council estate while also resisting the temptation to substitute one reductive group identity label for another. In these texts, often-surprising connections are formed on the grounds of the estate between people, objects, ideas, art, music – and fade as suddenly as they appear. The essay spans media studies, literary criticism, and sociology to argue that the networks conjured by estate literature are not only corrective but generative, inasmuch as they indicate that more affirmative configurations of these networks are possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document is an index for Volume 57 of the journal "Eighteenth-Century Studies." It includes a roundtable discussion on "Cities of the Dead" and a roundtable on Christopher Smart. The document also contains various articles on topics such as French Revolutionary drama, Rousseau's Rome, Benjamin Franklin, and the public use of reason. Additionally, there are multiple title and single title reviews of books related to the eighteenth century. This document is a list of books and articles that have been received by a library. The list includes a variety of topics, such as art, literature, history, and cultural studies. The books and articles cover a range of time periods and regions, including Mexico, South Asia, Ukraine, and Britain. [Extracted from the article]

This article adopts a geoliterary approach to explore the way some travel and adventure writers were shifting literary lines at the turn of the 19th century, especially through their use of vertical fault lines. In H. G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau or Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, as the characters explore unknown islands or enclaved spaces, they are confronted with literal “chasms” which they have to cross or explore in order to progress in their journeys. Such geological interruptions often represent hurdles in the travellers’ trajectories, and subsequently give them access to a new, previously unknown world or reality. Crossing these rifts may then result in a shift in genre, or at least in narrative rhythm and style. As the hero is put to the test, these spatial chasms sometimes reveal and even mirror the fault lines in his very identity, but also in the homogeneity and consistency of the narratives. The faulty travellers’ narratives are indeed often fraught with gaps and contradictions, which some critics have interpreted as symptomatic of the work’s flawed nature. However, this paper argues that such hiatuses in fact evince these works’ disruptive hybridity, and their utter modernity.

The document "Contributors" from ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature & Environment features a diverse group of scholars and researchers in the fields of literature and environmental studies. The contributors come from various academic institutions across the United States and Ireland, with research interests ranging from rural identity in American literature to transatlantic energy humanities. Their work includes publications in literary magazines, poetry books, and research projects funded by organizations like the Irish Research Council. [Extracted from the article]

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Under the background of accelerating international economic and cultural integration and increasingly frequent international exchanges, British and American literature education in colleges and universities should not only cultivate students’ British and American literature knowledge and skills, but also cultivate their Chinese cultural consciousness, self-confidence and cross-cultural communication ability. Therefore, it is necessary and feasible to integrate Chinese cultural elements into British and American literature education. In integrating Chinese culture into British and American literature education, we should adhere to cultural self-confidence, improve cultural critical thinking ability, explore and construct a two-way education model of Chinese and Western intertextuality, and cultivate foreign language talents with both Chinese feelings and international vision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature" is a scholarly monograph that explores the intersection of economic desire and interpersonal relations in nineteenth-century literature. The book examines a range of economic strategies depicted in Victorian fiction and non-fiction prose, challenging the norms of economic discourse during that time. The author analyzes works by authors such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Mary Seacole, and Oscar Wilde, highlighting the diverse and unconventional economic practices portrayed in their writings. The book offers a nuanced and historical perspective on Victorian desire and its significance in affective relationships beyond the heterosexual dyad. [Extracted from the article]

This is the introduction of Part I of the "Concise Collection on Teaching the Works of Margaret Cavendish." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Margaret Cavendish has only recently been included in the canonical literature anthologies and even then, the samplings of her prolific writings are severely truncated. However, even this small taste of Cavendish’s poems and excerpts of A Description of a New World called The Blazing World leave early British literature survey students hungry for more. Frequently, students in the survey choose to focus on Cavendish’s writing for their research projects in which they practice feminist and queer readings and engage with Cavendish as a key player in utopian and science fiction genres. Beyond the survey course, Blazing World works wonderfully in courses focused on Renaissance Utopias as well as transhistorical utopian and dystopian fiction and serves as the perfect frame text for literature and gender courses that focus on female world making. In the gender and literature course, Blazing World pairs excellently with more contemporary and intersectional feminist world makers including Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, and Alison Bechdel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Benjamin Kohlmann's book, "British Literature and the Life of Institutions: Speculative States," examines the connection between literature and societal change in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Kohlmann asserts that literature has the potential to envision new institutional arrangements and contribute to social progress. While some reviewers have criticized Kohlmann's historical and theoretical framework, the book provides detailed case studies that shed light on the social discussions of the era. Marshall Brown's review praises the author's research on social history but questions his philosophical and ideological perspectives. The book explores the social contexts of various writers, including George Gissing, Edward Carpenter, H.G. Wells, and E.M. Forster, arguing that their works reflect and echo the social policy debates of their time rather than speculatively advancing them. The reviewer recommends the book to scholars interested in studying social thought in the pre-World War I era. [Extracted from the article]

The study of British literature in China played a significant role in societal development of the 20th and 21st centuries. As a prominent scholar in China, Wang Shouren first attracted the attention of global academic community with his study of the 19th century English unacted drama in the 1990s. In his almost forty-year career of teaching and research on British literature, Wang has made a remarkable contribution to the advancement of British literary studies in China by broadening the horizon of research on classic British authors, promoting the study on contemporary British literature, and revisiting the development of literary theory in Britain. In his works on British literature, he introduces a research paradigm combining social criticism and aesthetic criticism, examines contemporary British literature with an emphasis on representation of societal development, and provides new perspectives for the study of British literary theory. Focusing on the Chinese elements in British literary works and adopting a comparative approach in editing textbooks, Wang Shouren demonstrates keen observation and creative intelligence of Chinese scholars, and establishes himself as one of the most influential scholars of foreign literature studies in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this interview, Wang Shouren introduces and reviews the journey of his literary research on British literature, American literature, and world literature. In an academic career of almost 40 years, he is apt at applying the socio-historical approach to make nuanced contemplation on the complicated relationship between literature and life. Juxtaposing literature with its historical context, his studies illustrate the authors' insights into their life and time by relating literature to socio-historical factors. Wang Shouren's systematic study on the principles of literary realism brings new life to socio-historical criticism and predicates that literature creates cognitive as well as aesthetic values in its representation and construction of reality. Wang Shouren's research on foreign literature bridges the gap between China and the West, meanwhile, he insists on the Chinese standpoint and maintains his own subjectivity as a Chinese scholar. Through translating literature in English, editing foreign literary histories and encyclopedia entries, and publishing articles and monographs, he demonstrates a character of praxis which is nourished by Chinese culture and history, and makes significant contribution to constructing China's systematic body of knowledge regarding foreign literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article situates James's late nineteenth-century career within the context of the British literary field. Taking The Princess Casamassima (1886) as an example, I recast the novel's socialist drama as an exploration of tensions between aesthetic autonomy and external commitment, especially the pressures of a commercial literary marketplace. While James vies for simultaneous critical and commercial success in mid-career novels like Princess , after its commercial failure he turns to a new "experiment": seeking these polarized incentives in separately designated experimental and marketable works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to examine Scottish politics in the decade or so following the Second World War. The objective is to uncover the texture of Scottish politics in a period that has been characterised rather simplistically. Much of the evidence for the paper is drawn from the Scottish popular press, most notably newspapers such as the Bulletin, which was a Glasgow publication with a unionist outlook, motivated by a concern to keep Scottish issues to the fore and to resist centralisation. The article will examine the way in which interpretations of this period in Scottish politics, as being one dominated by a unionism that was common to the main parties, serve to flatten what was an interesting and contested landscape. There is a considerable literature on this period in British historiography that engages in a debate about the value of the idea of 'consensus' in British politics. The apparent consensus over the Union hid a range of important debates about the way in which the Union ought to operate that were of such an extent as to bring the idea of a unionist consensus into question. Given that the Scottish National Party was such a marginal force in Scottish politics in this period, it seems more sensible to focus on the debates about the meaning of the Union rather than to adopt an existential focus that was simply not present in day-to-day political debate in the decade following the Second World War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Working with the archive of the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse (1919–40) at Cambridge University Library, this article reconstructs the intellectual and administrative labor of the prize's all-women committee of literary judges. I study the Femina from several angles: its uneasy status as a middlebrow cultural institution; the committee's position as a group of professional literary women reading other women's writing; and its negotiation of the period's political writing. Considering the role committee work like this played in "making modernism" involves a shift in emphasis from individual moments of creative rapture to the humdrum work of collective reading and consensus building. This article argues that the Femina committee, with its compelling combination of institutional history and women's labor, can "weaken" other "muscular" narratives of modernism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay presents images of writers from Poland in post-war British prose. Witold Gombrowicz was the prototype of the main character in Piers Paul Read's Polonaise, Polish émigré writers were the subject of Margaret Storm Jameson's novel A Ulysses Too Many, while writers in the service of the communist system were portrayed in their works by Jerzy Peterkiewicz (Future to Let) and Penelope Gilliatt (State of Change). One of the most interesting images of this kind is the character of JC from David Miller's novel Today, modelled on Joseph Conrad, an English writer, but with Polish roots. The works discussed in the essay are characterised by a diversity of approaches and a combination of fascination and critical judgement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite paying concerted attention to evolutionary mechanisms, literary scholars have rarely focused on forms of "directed evolution" like orthogenesis (evolution along a linear track) and phylogeronty—the parallel between the lifespan of an animal group and the lifespan of an aging individual—analogical concepts reflecting a paleontological manifestation of a wider interest in human decadence. This essay analyzes how these concepts are explored in three areas: popular adventure fiction, social reform novels by Marie Stopes and H. G. Wells, and writings by paleontologists. Across these texts, the essay argues that directed evolution offered a recognizable trajectory with which to render the complexity and strangeness of prehistoric and modern life alike into a familiar linear shape by reading certain extinct animals as moral exemplars of evolutionary failure. While reformers hoped that humans could escape the orthogenetic grooves confining nonhuman animals to extinction, this optimism was shadowed both with fears that humans might inevitably face decadence and with a sense that survival meant mediocrity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In The Ethics of Care (2006), Virginia Held underlines that care cannot be conceived without recognising our interdependence and responsibility for one another. Despite recent efforts to divide our society between private and public spheres, no such clear delimitation is possible in the ethics of care. Yet, as the Covid-19 pandemic has shown, the neoliberal financialisation of healthcare systems is redefining our ability to look after others. John Lanchester's 'crunch lit' novel Capital (2012) draws attention to what I call "experiences of decorporation": the vulnerable ageing body and the medical system both become victims of a market-logic which invisibilises the cared for, the carer, and the caring. Taking place on a single street in London, the metonymic construction of the novel calls for an analysis of how the illness and death of Petunia Howe, the oldest resident on Pepys Road, is symptomatic of the ethical effacement of the body politic under the clout of neoliberal politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the issue of identifying the most efficient methods for preparing and delivering university lectures. Despite being the oldest instructional approach, lectures remain widely employed in universities worldwide. However, recent pedagogical research by Ukrainian scholars has not fully explored this matter, hindering the development of practical guidelines for instructors aiming to organize and deliver effective lecture courses. The article aims to provide insights into best practices, methodologies, and strategies that contribute to the effectiveness of lectures, ultimately leading to improved educational outcomes in higher educational institutions. The following research methods were used to solve the assigned tasks: theoretical – analysis of scientific sources, pedagogical and teachingmethodical materials, comparison; empirical – generalization of pedagogical experience. The results are the following. In the article we underscore the significance of establishing learning objectives, precise timing and structuring, reducing content volume, outlining lecture notes, careful selection of examples, and the lecturer’s adaptability. Additionally, the authors highlight the importance of understanding the main stages of delivering a lecture, recognizing the nuances of maintaining students’ effective attention, and involving them in active learning practices. The article provides practical recommendations for lecturers based on the reviewed sources and the authors’ experience, accompanied by precautionary remarks. These precautions include avoiding the simultaneous use of numerous types of illustrative material and an excess of visual aids such as PowerPoint presentations. Such practices can lead to cognitive overload, as different processing forms may interfere with one another. Conclusion. The present study has explored the challenges and opportunities of effective lecturing in higher education, drawing on the insights from the British and American literature review and the empirical data collected from Ukrainian lecturers and students. Moreover, the article endeavors to conduct a more methodical analysis of efficacious techniques for preparing lectures, encompassing the critical stages of presentation. Furthermore, the present study seeks to delve into the nuances of captivating students’ effective attention and involving them through practices associated with active learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates institutional forces that maintain the focus on canonical authors in Middle English studies, despite the ubiquity of anonymity in the Middle English corpus, and despite the extensive critique of the canon that the field has witnessed. It provides a snapshot of the current Middle English canon, surveys publication patterns in sample academic journals in the twenty-first century, examines the ways authorship serves (and anonymity does not) as a critical tool, and shows what anonymous texts might offer to the ongoing assessment of the literariness of Middle English texts. Analysis of the scholarship of two Middle English scholars over the first two decades of the current century demonstrates the challenges and opportunities in developing methods that discern the literariness of anonymous, non-canonical texts. Work in New Formalism and object studies offers possibilities for recognising the literariness of anonymous texts not traditionally considered in terms of their aesthetic or formal features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Race formation, canon formation, and the writing of linguistic history can all be understood as processes of standardisation that differentiate through inclusion and exclusion of selected characteristics (of a human group, language use, or literary work) in synchronic moments and artificially link those moments to create diachronic histories that can span millennia. As we will show in this essay, Thomas Warton's The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the commencement of the Eighteenth Century (1775–1778) enacts all three processes simultaneously in ways that are inextricably entangled, and structured by an ideology of standardisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite its increasing prominence in university syllabi and anthologies, travel writing continues to be excluded from the canon of early modern literature. Its exclusion can be attributed to the view, articulated explicitly and implicitly, that its formal and stylistic conventions render it insufficiently 'literary'. Such assessments reveal a tendency to read early modern travel accounts using aesthetic criteria that are anachronistic, disconnected from the discursive contexts in which these accounts were originally written and read. This article examines one of the genre's most distinctive features, one which has shaped its relationship to notions of literary value and canonicity: its preoccupation with particulars, something early modern and modern readers alike characterise as 'tedious'. Focusing on Thomas Coryate's eponymous Coryats Crudities (1611), it situates the particularity of early modern travel writing within the reconstructed contexts of classical rhetoric, early modern poetics, and travel advice, placing special emphasis on the rhetorical quality of enargeia, or vividness. In addition to offering a fresh assessment of the Crudities and modelling a new approach to the study of travel writing more generally, the article reflects on how we can expand our sense of what early modern literature might be said to comprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, I aim to provide an overview of the relationship between women's writing and the 'canon', to suggest some reasons for its continuing marginality to that canon, and to outline briefly the ways in which the particular character and qualities of early modern women's writing require a rethinking of many of our dominant narratives about the literary history of the period. In this I draw upon the work of many critics whose work has shaped my thinking, and who are mapping out exciting new trajectories for the future direction of this field. The second part of the article focuses on setting out some ways in which early modern women's writing might provide productive challenges to current orthodoxies about the canon of Renaissance Literature. Finally, I turn to the future, and some ideas about how the category of 'women's writing' itself needs to be repositioned and reconceived. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines the place of outlaw literature, particularly the English tradition of Robin Hood narratives, on the outskirts of the literary canon. It considers that the 'flawed' material contexts for much of the literature is linked to a set of anxieties around incompleteness, lack of clear origins, and fragmentariness, and that the material contexts also lead to assumptions around literariness. It takes as case-studies one later-medieval manuscript and a fragment from the same period, both preserving important and unique pieces of Robin Hood literature, and argues for them as typical material survivals from this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]