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“I’m Not Someone Who Calls Himself an Anarchist, I am an Anarchist”: The Continuing Significance of Anarchism in the Later Lives of Ex-Adherents of British Anarcho-Punk
British anarcho-punk was a unique subset of the 1970s and 1980s punk rock subculture, wherein notions of anarchism were explored and enacted, beyond...
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Introduction: Dutch Industry and English Identity
Early modern England and the United Provinces experienced an emulative rivalry between the Spanish Armada and the Glorious Revolution. The English...
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The New Black Legend: England’s Violent Colonial Competition with the Dutch
The predominance of African slave labor on plantations in English and Dutch colonies over the course of the seventeenth century highlights the...
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One-Act Shakespeare: Teaching Cultural Legacy Through Excerpts and Adaptations
Despite widespread resistance to teaching Shakespearean drama through excerpted passages, an alternative to the standard two-week study of a...
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Online Shakespeare: Beneficial Learning Experiences for Non-Majors
When studying Shakespeare’s plays, most undergraduates struggle with close reading, textual analysis, and interpretation. Engaging with and...
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After the Decision
This chapter discusses the media attention received, both negative and positive, by the Horniman in the wake of its announcement of intention to...
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Reframing the Narrative
This chapter outlines how the Horniman Museum and Gardens began to address its colonial origin and legacy, the steps it took to improve and...
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The Way Out Is Through: Co-produced Critical Utopia as an Antidote to Anthropocenic Academic Melancholia
The starting point for this chapter is the late Mark Fisher’s work on nascent postcapitalist desire, as a curtailed exploration of the anxiety and...
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Conclusion
This concluding chapter revisits the key claims of the overall work. It summarises Reagan’s impact on American politics, policy-making, and popular...
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The Expressive Subject: Prosumers, Virtuosi, and Digital Musical Control
This chapter proposes expressive subjectivity as a framework to describe relations between the creativity dispositif, prosumer culture, and digital...
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Figurations of the Tool Agnostic
In this chapter, we sketch the outlines of the tool agnostic as figuration, a cultural trope for techno-social agency, that is particularly suited to...
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Davies, Eleanor
Eleanor Davies (née Touchet; later Douglas; also Audley) (1590–1652) believed herself to be a messenger from the biblical prophet Daniel following a...
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Emotions
The chapter starts by tracing the evolution of the concept of emotion from Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Most of these perspectives...
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Frederic Bartlett
Bartlett’s famous experiments on remembering emerged out of his earlier anthropological interests and as such highlight social and cultural factors...
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Dreams
Three questions arise about the relationship between dreams and memory. First, how reliably can we remember and report dreams? The privacy of dreams...
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History of Memory Artifacts
Human biological memory systems have adapted to use technological artifacts to overcome some of the limitations of these systems. For example, when...
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Historicism
This entry explores a range of strategies that can productively foster greater historical understanding of women writers’ works, as well as awareness...
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Ecocriticism/Ecofeminism
This entry examines historical and recent ecocritical and/or ecofeminist scholarship concerning early modern women’s writing. Beginning with Carolyn...
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Vokins, Joan
Joan Vokins (née Bunce) (c. 1630–1690) was the wife of a yeoman farmer in the Vale of White Horse in Berkshire, England. About 1663, she was...
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Women as Patrons of Drama
Many women served as dramatic patrons in early modern England. They helped make plays in private and public venues by commissioning and funding...