English and Humanities Research

Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: JRR Tolkien and early 20th-century radical linguistic experimentation

Fimi, Dimitra (Valparaiso University, 2018-03)

This article situates Tolkien’s “A Secret Vice” (and its accompanying notes and papers) within the cultural and intellectual milieu of the early 20th century. It claims that at the heart of Tolkien’s exploration in this ...

‘My Coming Out Story’: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth Identities on YouTube

Lovelock, Michael (Sage Journals, 2017-07-18)

Videos in which young lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people discuss their experiences of coming out are highly visible on YouTube. Whilst work from Cultural Studies perspectives has long explored how LGB youth construct ...

Review of Sarah Wootton, Byronic Heroes in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing and Screen Adaptation

Casaliggi, Carmen (Liverpool University Press, 2017-05-05)

From Coppet to Milan: Romantic circles at La Scala

Casaliggi, Carmen (Boston University, 2017-06-01)

Tired of London, tired of life: the queer pastoral in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Spell

English, Elizabeth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-06-24)

It is telling that Alan Hollinghurst begins The Spell, his 1998 novel that splits its time between Dorset and London, with an episode that pays homage to the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright’s designs were ...

Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology

Fimi, Dimitra (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2017-01-01)

This book examines the creative uses of “Celtic” myth in contemporary fantasy written for children or young adults from the 1960s to the 2000s. Its scope ranges from classic children’s fantasies such as Lloyd Alexander’s ...

“I Am…”: Caitlyn Jenner, Jazz Jennings and the cultural politics of transgender celebrity

Lovelock, Michael (Taylor & Francis, 2017-03-16)

In the twenty-first century, the visibility of transgender celebrities appears greater than ever. Whilst scholarly work has analysed, and continues to analyse, representations of trans celebrities, this research has largely ...

Houtsiplou

North, Kate (The Lonely Press, 2017-02-01)

Jo is going fifty in a forty but it's okay. She is in the Vale and her previous speeding tickets were in the city. They are different authorities. The rain drives down. It is windy and the moisture on the tarmac is blown ...

The Fake in the Back

Anthony, Daniel (New Welsh Review, 2017-01-01)

Comic story by Dan Anthony. Reading & recording by Caroline Stockford. Images and animation by Megan Elsey. Audio edit by Ieuan Rhys.

The Bus Stop at the End of the World

Anthony, Daniel (Gomer, 2017-01-20)

At the bus stop, halfway between his new home and school, Ritchie's stumbled upon the spot where myth and real trouble get mixed up. Singing cowboys, green creatures from the hedge and the fastest girl on two wheels ...

Exploring care for children with autism in Wales using creative writing as a research method in a collaborative pilot study

North, Kate (NAWE, 2017-03-01)

This article comes out of a recent project conducted by the Autism Collaborative Research Group (ACRe), using writing workshops to capture the experiences of clinicians, educators and parents of children with Autistic ...