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Working with English Journal

Welcome

Working with English was an online, peer-reviewed journal designed to promote new and original research in the field of English Studies.

The journal accepted papers on all aspects of medieval and modern language, literature and drama.

The journal was based in the School of English at the University of Nottingham.

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Working with English - medieval and modern language, literature and drama
 
 

Current Issue

Volume 7 (2011)
Volume 7 (2011)
 
Realisation of requests and criticisms in Polish and British English Malgorzata Chalupnik 
Addicted to Talk: Newspaper Representations of the Female Speaking Subject Tony Fisher
Friend and Foe: Monarchism, Republicanism, and Civil Conflict in Rape of Lucrece Penny Garnsworthy
‘Striving with Systems to deliver Individuals’: William Blake’s Psychic Re-animation of Greek Myth Mark Ryan

Previous Issues

Volume 6 (2010)
Volume 6 (2010)
 
‘Such was the law of The Road’ and Such were the Rules of The Text: Autobiographical Explorations of Hobo Subculture Joanne Hall 
‘Keep scopin til you hear me, words is spoken clearly’ Hip-hop music and the art of exclusion Dave Peplow 
The Historical Discourse(s) of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Classical Fetish and Whiggism Ivan Pregnolato
 
Volume 5 (2009): Special Issue
Volume 5 (2009): Special Issue
 

Crossing the Divides: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Teaching and Researching English Studies

Sentenced to Destruction: a Stylistic Analysis of the Syntax of Two Post-apocalyptic Novels Martin Boyne 
Crossing the Street: Literature and Urban Space Inga Bryden
Literature in Context: Enquiry Based Learning for First Year English Students Danielle Clarke, Fionnuala Dillane, Katie Long, Naomi McAreavey and Niamh Pattwell
Literature and Music: Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching at The Open University Delia da Sousa Correa, Katia Chornik and Robert Samuels
Introduction: Crossing the Divides Jonathan Gibson, Nicole King and Brett Lucas
‘A Language Spoken Everywhere’: Fashion Studies and English Studies Margaret D. Stetz
 
Volume 4 (2008): Special Issue
Volume 4 (2008): Special Issue
 

The Romantic-Period Paratext

Robert Southey’s ‘old curiosity-shops’: ‘Common-placing’ and Paratext  Ourania Chatsiou 
D’Israeli’s Peritext: A Preface to Romantic-Period Scholarship Daniel Cook
An End of an Old Song? The Paratexts of the Waverley Novels and Reference to Traditional Song C. M. Jackson-Houlston
Hemans’ Response to the Romantic Uni-verse Kathleen Lundeen 
Historicizing the Jupien Effect: Paratextual Anxieties In Eighteenth-century Critical Discourse Alex Watson
 
Volume 3 (2007): Special Issue
Volume 3 (2007): Special Issue
 

'An Ever-Fixèd Mark'?: Performing Identities in Postmodern Shakespeare 

Childhood and War in Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V and Julie Taymor’s Titus Stephen Kavanagh
‘Edgar I Nothing Am’: Disguise and Psychological Identity in Filmic Adaptations of King Lear and Twelfth Night Sinead Larkin
‘An Ever-Fixèd Mark’?: Performing Identities in Postmodern Shakespeare Sinead Larkin and Adam Hansen
‘An interwoven pattern of history and legend’: Shakespeare’s Richard III on Film Kate Wilkinson
 
Volume 2.1 (2006): Special Issue
Volume 2.1 (2006): Special Issue
 

Literary Fads and Fashions

“Went to War with Rupert Brooke and Came Home with Siegfried Sassoon”: The Poetic Fad of the First World War Argha Banerjee 
"The Uncle Tom's Cabin of Nativism:" Anti-Catholic Novels, Politics and Violence in the Antebellum United States O. R. Butler
Trends in Twentieth-Century American Literary Culture: Henry Roth’s “Gateways of Esteem” Alan Gibbs
The Unitary Self and Conflicting Voices in John Updike’s S Ceri Gorton
“English Parnassianism” and the Place of France in the English Canon Christopher Harris
A National Biography: Shakespeare and the DNB Mark Hollingsworth
“An Ephemeral Oddity”?: The Beat Generation and American Culture Catherine Nash
The Renaissance Revival in English Literature Nina Riedler
The Rise and Fall and Rise of William S. Burroughs Edward S. Robinson
Blurring the Boundaries: The Sexuality of Little Women Donna-Marie Tuck
Richard Marsh’s The Beetle (1897): a late-Victorian popular novel Minna Vuohelainen
 
Volume 2 (2005-2006)
Volume 2 (2005-2006)
 
Re-reading the script: a discursive appraisal of the use of the 'schema' in cognitive poetics Daniel Allington
“Come sing ye light fairy things tripping so gay”: Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J. R. R. Tolkien Dimitra Fimi 
The Construction of a Reputation for Madness: The Case Study of Lady Caroline Lamb Leigh Wetherall Dickson
 
Volume 1 (2003-2004)
Volume 1 (2003-2004)
 
Demystifying the Criminal Mind: Linguistic, Social and Generic Deviance in Contemporary American Crime Fiction Christiana Gregoriou 
No Laughing Matter: How the Tabloids Textualised Racism During Euro ’96 Kevin Harvey
The Post-Romantic Sublime: Generation X And the Intransigence of the Surplus Jouissance Wing-chi Ki
Petar II Petrović Njegoš: Ecce Homo Slavica Ranković
 

Journal team

Editorial Board:

 

General Editor:

Matt GreenEmail Matt Green
 
In addition to the above, Working with English would also like to thank the anonymous readers who have provided additional feedback on papers.
 
 

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