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Labour Unrest
This chapter concentrates on working conditions and labour unrest. Living and working conditions are often interdependent, so the chapter discusses...
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Adventures in Digital and Public Humanities: Co-Producing Trans History Through Creative Collaboration
Adventures in Time and Gender is a collaborative trans history project that brought together trans and non-binary writers, artists, young people,...
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Printing, Publishing, and Pocket Book Compiling: Ann Fisher’s Hidden Labour in the Newcastle Book Trade
Ann Fisher (1719–1778), author of bestselling grammatical textbooks, co-founded and co-edited with her husband, Thomas Slack, the Newcastle...
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Crip Precarities: Immaterial Labour and Disability in Post-Devolutionary Scottish Writing
Focusing on John Burnside’s Glister (2008), James Kelman’s Mo Said She Was Quirky (2012), Ali Smith’s Hotel World (2001), A.L. Kennedy’s Paradise...
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Surface: Barbara Guest’s Tactile Cladding
In this chapter, I argue that critical attempts to locate the architecture of Barbara Guest’s poetry have been thwarted by the tendency to look too...
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“Simply as an Instrument”: The Female Characters of Christine Brooke-Rose
Christine Brooke-Rose’s novels frequently challenge and reflect the role of women in academic and intellectual society. While she did not consider...
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New Perspectives on the Roles of Women in Italy’s Modern Intellectual History
This introductory chapter offers new tools for reconsidering women’s roles in Italy’s modern intellectual history from 1861 to today. Setting out the...
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The Writer and the Couturière: Authorship and Creative Industry in the 1870s
This chapter considers the significance of the emerging profession of the dress designer in constructions of authorial identity in the 1870s. Known...
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“minutely Appropriate Execution”: Variation and Pentimento in Blake’s Title Pages
In the Descriptive Catalogue, Blake draws on and develops some of his manuscript responses to Reynolds to set out a theory of art that emphasizes an...
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The Green Witch: Vlogging, Phytography and Human–Flora Imagination
Through her vlogging channel called The Green Witch, Annabel Margaret communicates her daily activities as an aspiring herbalist, artist and...
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Disturbing the Weather: How Women Have Been Written and Viewed in Nature and Place
This chapter explores the perception and representation of women between the city and the land with particular reference to disrupted/diasporic...
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Eternally Yours: Jane Austen as Vampire
This chapter discusses Austen fan fiction that reimagines Jane Austen herself as a vampire. On one hand, the gesture can be read to give corporeal...
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Moral Authority of Shona Women’s Battlesongs: Revising Customary Law in the Context of Performance Within African Indigenous Knowledge System
Studies abound that explore the linguistic and internal dynamics of battlesongs in Africa and globally. However, little work has been devoted to...
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Dianxi **aoge: Yunnan Flavours, Cultural Ecology and the Digital Archiving of Rural Community
Representing the life of a particular cultural community and their inhabited countryside can mean portraying generational family members, neighbours...
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“Bedlam Dames and Fowle Hags”: Uterine Pathologies and Menopausal Ambiguities
Although “menopause” was not defined as a medical, physiological, or sociocultural event for the early moderns, I argue that, in the tragedies of...
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Paths Less Trodden: Representations of Indian Women Outside the Plantation Frontier in Colonial Malaya in K. S. Maniam’s Fiction
This chapter focuses primarily on the female experience of early migrantMigrant life in colonial Malaya as conveyed in two texts by K. S. Maniam...
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“Learning to Wear a Sari Is a Rite of Passage”: Shailja Patel’s Inventory of the Migrant Body in Migritude
This chapter introduces Patel’s Migritude as a body-shaped memoir whose self-discovery narration is harmonized by the saris she has inherited from...
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Jonna **ton: Ecospirituality, the Walking Body and Landscape
Exploring and appreciating the beauty of landscapes and ancient traditions can become a creative source and prowess for autobiographical narrative...
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Migrant Lives and the Dynamics of (Non)belonging in the Polish-British Works of A.M. Bakalar, Wioletta Greg, and Agnieszka Dale
Migration exposes such givens as home and belonging to be more than national or ethnic categories; instead, they emerge as complex affective...
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Film and Financial Space
This chapter looks at how space has been figured in what is sometimes perceived as the placeless circulation of globalized finance capital. In Emma...