Travelling Wives and Unprotected Women: Representing the Female Traveller in Tom Taylor’s mid-Victorian Comedies (1860)

Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, Britain would boast of an economic and social prosperity, improving both national and international transport and tourism. However, certain social issues such as the Woman Question, or the altercations in the colonies raised questions about the Empire’s stability. In London, galleries, museums, and theatrical stages, would reproduce images of the colonies to satisfy the people’s appetite for the foreign. In these, mobile women were usually reduced to stereotypical characters. Thus, we can find a clear categorization of the female traveller: on the one hand, the faithful wife who accompanies her husband, and, on the other, the wild, undomesticated female (Ferrús 19). This article scrutinises women’s position and representation as travellers during the Victorian period. With this purpose in mind, we analyse two comedies written by English playwright Tom Taylor (1817-1880) for London’s stages: The Overland Route (Haymarket 23 February 1860) and Up at the Hills (St. James’s Theatre 22 October 1860). The plays’ setting (colonial India) offers us the opportunity to further discuss gender ideology and its relationship with travel during the mid-Victorian period.

Sounding an Idol: The Television as Imagetext in Don DeLillo’s White Noise

The response of critics to Don DeLillo’s seminal novel White Noise has centred on the connections that can be drawn between this work and the critical context that surrounded it upon its publication in 1984, namely the climate of radical scepticism ushered in by critics like Jean Baudrillard. This article attempts to argue that the relationship between the novel and this critical climate is far more antagonistic than has been acknowledged previously. Drawing upon the critic W.J.T. Mitchell’s reading of Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the “sounding”, as opposed to the iconoclastic smashing, of idols, the article will “sound” the idol which is at the centre of DeLillo’s novel: the television. This will show the critical distance that DeLillo deliberately established between his text and the texts of postmodern theory that were fashionable throughout the later twentieth century (particularly at the time White Noise was published) and will place DeLillo in a more contemporary context, his face turned not only to the past, but to the critical horizons ahead of him.

‘What you thought you have forgotten’: The Mersey Sound Revisited

The Mersey Sound (1967) was the best-selling poetry anthology of the sixties in the UK. Apart from its commercial success, it is also an important document in terms of the study of working-class literary output in this decade. Despite this, its position within the British literary canon has often been neglected in academic realms. It is for this reason that the present article aims to offer an insight into the scholarly importance of thisanthology through offering arguments for its reevaluation. Moreover, in this research its current status will be explored, looking in particular at contemporary literary criticism of working-class mass culture and art. To this end, I will first discuss the main justifications for a reconsideration of the significance of the collection and describe its context and origins. This will be followed by an analysis of the content of the volume and its current relevance. Conclusions drawn from this will include possible reasons for its absence in many academic poetry guides and will also stress the need torecover and reappraise the anthology in future research on working-class British poetry.

Are CLIL Teachers-to-be Motivated? A Qualitative Study

In recent years, CLIL has gained momentum in Europe and many have been the authors who have analysed the relationship between CLIL and motivation. The vast majority of these studies have focused on learner motivation (Doiz et al., Lasagabaster, Lasagabaster and Sierra, Seikkula-Leino). This study aims to redress that balance by examining teacher motivation, more specifically, the extent to which teachers-in-training of CLIL are motivated. Participants are final-year Primary Education degree students at UCLM (M=21.5), who completed an open-ended questionnaire examining both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. Results demonstrated significantly high levels of intrinsic motivation.

Descripción de GUL Ms Gen 831

Los manuscritos de recetas médicas del periodo del inglés moderno temprano han sido objeto de numerosos estudios. En este estudio presentamos uno de ellos, el GUL Ms Gen 831. Este trabajo describe el códice desde el punto de vista codicológico, donde, además del contenido, se detallan las dimensiones, el estado de conservación de las páginas y la encuadernación. Por otro lado, se ha llevado a cabo un estudio paleográfico, donde se analizan la puntuación, el tipo de letra, los errores y las correcciones que contiene el códice. Además de esta descripción se ha querido dar una visión general de la importancia de tener estos libros en las casas.