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Bodies in Transit: Re-thinking vulnerability and resistance in post-colonial neo-Victorian literature and culture
(2019-11-18)The aim of my participation in this round table is to make an approach to an analysis of contemporary historical fiction through the lens of theories of vulnerability and resistance. In particular, I would like to address ... -
Cambridge Female Refuge Rules (1838-1844): An Institution for "Females Who Have Been Leading a Sinful Course of Life"
(2019-06-25)The Cambridge Female Refuge was an institution established in Cambridge Church Street in 1838 as a House of Mercy for the moral rescue of fallen women. Prostitution was a serious preoccupation at the time for both town and ... -
Cambridge Prostitution and the Rules Governing the University Spinning House in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
(2017-04-19)The aim of this paper is to analyse the situation of prostitution in Cambridge and its regulation by the middle of the nineteenth century based on archival research. Cambridge Universitiy was characterised at the time by ... -
Detective Fiction and the Neo-Victorian: Sexual Violence, Morality and Rescue Work in Lee Jackson’s The Last Pleasure Garden (2007)
(2014-09-30)In his third Inspector Decimus Webb novel, a detective from Scotland Yard, Jackson Lee re-appropriates the crime-fiction genre to portray several stories of gender abuse and violence. Several women become the victims of ... -
Genders, mobilities, and interdependencies: the aims and theoretical background of bodies in transit
(2018-11-12)The aim of this round table is to present an overview of the aims, research topics and theoretical framework of the new project “Bodies in Transit 2: Genders, Mobilities, and Interdependencies”. This project has connections ... -
“Kate Williams’s The Pleasures of Men" (2012): mental disorder, trauma, resilience
(2018-07-04)Violence against women has been an important issue for neo-Victorian studies. Women’s bodies and minds have been the object of violence in Victorian times and historical fiction echoes traumas from the past that need ... -
La promesse de l’objet dans la publicité touristique
(2019-09-20)Nous donnant comme objectif général de cerner le discours promissif à l’œuvre dans la publicité touristique de presse écrite, la matérialité discursive révèle, sur le plan illocutif, la désubjectivation de l’acte promissif ... -
Neo-Victorian Wasted Lives and Detection in Lee Jackson’s A Metropolitan Murder (2004).
(2023)In one of his seminal works, Wasted Lives: Modernity and its Oucasts (2004), Zygmunt Bauman defines the idea of “wasted lives” as a ripple of modernity creating the figure of “the outcast”. According to him, the production ... -
Semiosfera turística: crear el acontecimiento
(2018-07-30)Si el efecto persuasivo culmina en el plano perlocutivo, la promesa gobierna el plano discursivo y con ello la retórica del discurso promocional turístico. Sobre esta hipótesis fuerte, fundamentada en la observación, que ... -
Sémiosphère touristique : la construction de la promesse par l’événement dans la publicité
(2018-04-23)Une marque de destination ou brand serait porteuse d’une promesse détenue par l’objet touristique véhiculant un imaginaire valorisant sinon euphorique. Sous-tendue par la doxa inhérente à la sémiosphère touristique, qui ... -
Town and gown prostitution Cambridge’s architecture of containment of sexual deviance
(Peter Lang, 2022-10-19)This book makes an analysis of prostitution in Cambridge in the Victorian period based on different social and cultural discourses as well as on archival materials concerning institutions devoted to the control and ... -
Trauma after a life of torture in irish Magdalene laundries: Magdalene survivors’ testimonies and Patricia Burke-Brogan’s Stained Glass at Samhain
(Routledge, 2023-01)In 2007 James Smith coined the phrase “Ireland’s architecture of containment” referring to the conspiracy of silence Ireland had been immersed since the last decades of the twentieth century concerning institutional abuse ...