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{"title":"Commemorating Britishness during the centennial of the First World War: a comparative analysis of political commemorative speeches in Northern Ireland and in Scotland","authors":"Nolwenn Rousvoal","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2020.1844412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2020.1844412","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Jeffrey Donaldson, the DUP MP for Lagan Valley, told Westminster on June 26th, 2014: “The future of Ireland was shaped not on the streets of Dublin in 1916, but on the muddy, blood-soaked battlefields of the Western front.” Two years later, Brexit negotiations started. These two seemingly unrelated events have strong implications for the definition of Britishness in the 21st century since the “Brexit question” provided the backdrop for the centenary of World War One. In Northern Ireland, the memory of the conflict has been deeply sensitive, and the question of the nationalist “amnesia” regarding the Irish soldiers involved alongside the British forces has been only recently addressed. May 1st, 2013 marked the start of the Decade of Commemorations in Ireland. This opportune time was supposed to be marked by inclusiveness and openness. This article aims to explore how discourse on Britishness as an overarching identity can accommodate co-existing nationalist narratives while preserving a common historical heritage. Comparing political commemorative speeches in Northern Ireland and in the rest of the United Kingdom, with a special emphasis on Scotland (where the Great War commemorations coincided with the referendum on independence), should provide an insight into the modern definition of Britishness.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"115 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2020.1844412","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42574212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The experimental imagination: literary knowledge and science in the British Enlightenment","authors":"M. Zaman","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2020.1834720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2020.1834720","url":null,"abstract":"This work of intellectual history and literary analysis traces the seemingly unexpected and yet illuminating links forged between natural philosophy, experimental science, literature, and the production of knowledge during the British Enlightenment in the long eighteenth century. Tita Chico achieves this through reference to literariness as an episteme; a means by which knowledge, science, and power act to exploit the imaginative possibilities open to literature. The ‘experimental imagination’ is defined by that which ‘concentrates on possibilities imagined, if not fully developed, when writers contemplate what a natural philosophical approach might be. For many in the long eighteenth century, natural philosophy requires the imaginative impulses available within a literary framework’ (10). Broken into five chapters, working variously towards this initial hypothesis, Chapter 1 (Literary Knowledge) explores the ways with which science emerges as a unique form of knowledge through the rise of the ‘experiment’. Here the turning away from an Aristotelian paradigm to that of ‘discovery’, in the seventeenth century, is given attention. Chico draws upon the doyens of this new intellectual paradigm, namely, Robert Hooke, Francis Bacon, and Robert Boyle, to reveal how literariness (through tropes, metaphors, and narrative) was deployed as a means to explore and communicate the new discoveries of experimental philosophy. Drawing further upon this mode of episteme as a legitimate means to knowledge, Chapter 2 (Immodest Witnesses) considers the antipodal scientific personality created in the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Here science writing and novella establish and caricature the Gimcrack (a proper noun for the foolish scientist) and the coquette as literary exemplars of the intellectual parvenu. Gender most prominently surfaces to expose the scientific foil of the feminine as the slovenly advocate for serious and objective knowledge. Chapter 3 (Scientific Seduction) segues to the role specifically of ‘seduction’ in the employment of ‘characters in scientific dialogues’ (76). In this regard, Bacon famously remarks that his intellectual intent was to ‘penetrate unto the inner further recesses of nature . . . [to] find a way at length into her inner chambers’ (77). Here seduction plots are examined in the works of Fontenelle and Algarotti in relation to their works on teaching scientific ideas:","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"195 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2020.1834720","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46495269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Decentring commemorations: literary, cultural, historical and political celebrations across and beyond the British Isles","authors":"Céline Sabiron, Jeremy Tranmer","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2020.1844411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2020.1844411","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this introduction to the issue Decentring Commemorations: Literary, Cultural, Historical and Political Celebrations across and beyond the British Isles, the authors give an overview of recent developments in the forms taken by official – sometimes politically motivated – commemorations and of the appearance of new – often more challenging and subversive – types of commemorations engaged in by social and cultural groups which had previously been marginalised or invisible. Drawing from fundamental academic work in the field of memory studies, and especially that of cultural memory, Sabiron and Tranmer wish to address a vast and yet under-reported issue in this sphere of study by adopting an innovative stand and taking a fundamentally transnational and transcultural approach to acts of commemorating.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"105 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2020.1844411","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41554875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Glocal narratives of resilience","authors":"Michael Basseler","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2020.1834719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2020.1834719","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"192 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2020.1834719","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49363692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Commemorating Mme de Staël and Jane Austen across Britain and France","authors":"A. Braida","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2020.1844420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2020.1844420","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article focuses on the transnational commemorations and on the literary canonisation of Jane Austen and Madame de Staël in France and Britain. Adopting Dović and Elgason’s model for the study of national literary canons, significant analogies are found in the evolution of the two writers’ reception from 1817 to 2017. Both authors’ works were translated soon after their publication: however, de Staël became a symbol of the anti-Napoleonic fight in Britain thus influencing her early canonisation. Austen, conversely, received few reviews in France and was associated early with an interpretation based on eighteenth-century sentimental novels. In the twentieth century their “sanctification” was supported by literary societies created in the 1930s, and they had a “shrine” in the form of their birthplaces transformed into monuments. This essay analyses the ways in which this canonisation has travelled across Britain and France. Their reception underwent a significant variation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: with the development of women’s studies, the English-speaking academic community adopted de Staël as a canonised writer. The analysis ends by raising the question of the incomplete canonisation of both female writers in France.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"177 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2020.1844420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45248937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A temple to transnational queerness: the politics of commemorating Oscar Wilde","authors":"C. Valentine","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2020.1844415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2020.1844415","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a noted divergence between academic and commemorative treatments of Oscar Wilde. Both have placed the transnational and queer dimensions of Wilde’s identity at the fore, but scholars have also emphasised its orientalist and imperialist facets, while artists and devotees has pared down those less palatable qualities. This paper takes one tribute – Peter McGough and David McDermott’s Oscar Wilde Temple (2017–2019) – as a case study to explore the politics of queer commemoration. By first situating the Temple in a history of Wilde commemorations, I define a set of selection criteria on which any such monument must arbitrate. I then use those criteria to close read the Temple’s iconography, attending to representations of queer, Catholic, and Irish identity before addressing the politics of canonising Wilde given his participation in systems of colonial and racial injustice. Instead of grounds to dismiss Wilde’s art and its contemporary supporters, I take those politics as a challenge to imagine more critical and intersectional approaches to queer commemoration. My conclusion turns from theory to praxis to explore how models of queer myth-making and counterpublics might be concretised to develop such alternatives.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"146 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2020.1844415","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43513994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Commemorating Shakespeare(s) across the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and France from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first centuries","authors":"J. Frenk","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2020.1844419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2020.1844419","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Commemorations of William Shakespeare have always been multimedial ideological constructs with particular aims and purposes in different cultures and contexts at different times. Shakespeare commemorations have been instrumental in the creation of the cultural capital that is attached to Shakespeare today. This essay traces some significant Shakespeare commemorations since the eighteenth century, beginning with David Garrick's Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769. From the commemorations of 1864, the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth, it goes on to trace Shakespeare commemorations particularly in the United Kingdom and Germany in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, after World War II, Shakespeare commemorations became ever more globalised in a world dominated by the Cold War and the Western hegemony of the anglosphere, in particular the USA. With its split in 1963, just before the quadricentenary, the German Shakespeare Society followed the split of Germany on the frontier between the Western and Eastern political blocks. After the end of the Cold War, the Shakespeare cult and industry of the 21st century instigate even more globalised commemorations that compete with each other and that arguably result, for instance at the 450th anniversary in 2014, in an excess of commemorations, both in academia and in popular culture.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"162 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2020.1844419","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48930138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The urban condition: literary trajectories through the Canadian Postmetropolis","authors":"A. Branach-Kallas","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2020.1730034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2020.1730034","url":null,"abstract":"time. ‘The world of books’ may have inspired the editors as well as the contributors to move beyond the purview of the original occasion for this volume, which is both a strength and a weakness. On the one hand, the volume reads more like conference proceedings than a stringently composed anthology. Fewer and longer essays explicitly focussed on the history of the Press and the announced interest in developments in book history and material culture in Woolf studies might have given us a stronger sense of direction in this field. On the other hand, there is no doubt that this collection is helpful and valuable as documentation of current trends in Woolf scholarship. Ultimately, then, this is a book by and for Woolfians, the international community of Woolf scholars whose critical thinking, creative efforts, and political activism Woolf’s work continues to inspire.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"101 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2020.1730034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49653848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Representing trans: visibility and its discontents","authors":"Anson Koch-Rein, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, J. Verlinden","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2020.1730040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2020.1730040","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this introduction to the special issue Representing Trans, the authors reflect on the radical changes in trans representation between the early 1990s and the present. Through brief reflections on Pose (2018-) and other landmark examples of trans representation in film and television, the authors show how these changes attest to complex interrelations between visibility, recognition, and violence. Beyond the realm of film and television, the introduction also discusses broader media representations that connect the question of visibility to political debates and the regulation of public spaces. Highlighting a variety of trans theorical engagements with different forms of mediality (including literature), the authors propose a more expansive understanding of trans as a reading practice as well as a method of analysing and transing medial forms.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"1 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2020.1730040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42181971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Delicate, petite & other things I’ll never be”: trans-punk anthems and love songs","authors":"G. Schott","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2020.1730048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2020.1730048","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Punk’s dogged durability continues to be driven by a communal ethos that once embodied inclusivity, resistance, challenge, and transformation. The precipitous absorption and integration of punk into the mainstream ran the risk of undermining the authenticity of its rebellion, DIY principles, and sub-cultural inimitability. Yet, in emerging from the underground punk has continued to provide a counter-normative framework and aesthetic. The ethos that underpinned first-wave punk is evident today in punk’s ongoing engagement with queer politics and persistent illustrations of gender fluidity. This article examines an articulation of “transgender as punk” focusing on the example of Laura Jane Grace, lead singer of U.S. anarcho-punk band Against Me!, who came out as transgender five albums into her public life as an established punk musician. Punk has time and again served as a site for making visible and verbalising discordant experiences, which Grace has accessed to document her complex and troubled personal intercessions, transgender realities, and their uncertain future.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"37 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2020.1730048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42381517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}