Ross G Forman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1463186 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross G Forman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross G |
| FAMILY NAME | Forman |
| SIGNATURE | FORMAN R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1384-4205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Migrant Visibility, Agency, and Identity Work in Hospitality Enterprises
This article examines how migrants create value through food- and hospitality-related enterprises, focusing on the ways in which they exercise their agency in mobilizing various cultural resources and on how their organizational practices intersect with identity work. Drawing on empirical research conducted in São Paulo, Brazil, it explores how specific dishes, knowledge of food, recipes, craft skills, and migration histories are transformed into…
Nothing corresponding to it in China”
This paper considers Britain’s first large-scale Chinese restaurant, situated within the 1884 International Health Exhibition in London. It asks what cultural work this Chinese restaurant and associated tearoom performed by considering two interrelated factors that governed the relationship between Britain and the British Empire, Europe, and the United States and China in the 1880s: The first is the recovery of exhibition culture’s key role in th…
From Reading to Rio
This essay examines the reverberations of the Oscar Wilde trials in Brazil, using it to probe how a “widening” of Victorian studies might work and arguing that looking beyond the use nodes of comparison enriches our understanding of the long nineteenth century
A Parasite for Sore Eyes
Since the late 1980s and Elaine Showalter's influential Sexual Anarchy , it has become axiomatic to read Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula as a text that responds to anxieties of degeneration through metaphors of infection (184). Given the obvious sexual nature of the threat represented by the vampire, critics have focused on syphilis as the text's most immediate disease of reference. They have identified many important correspondences between Sto…
Theater of the Impressed
How local teachers respond to the culture and language of a global English as a Foreign Language textbook
The global textbook has an enormous influence upon what is taught in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. As Akbari has noted, our era is not simply ‘postmethod’, but one of ‘textbook-defined practice’. What happens, then, when a global EFL textbook is selected for use with Year 1 students at a Thai university? How appropriate is the content; and how do local teachers respond? To date, while there has been considerable analysis of the …
China and the Victorian Imagination
What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilitie…
Humorous Language Play in a Thai EFL Classroom
The relationship between creativity, play, and language learning has been of increasing interest over the past decade, but the role of humour itself in SLL remains significantly under-explored. The present study examines humorous language play initiated by a bilingual EFL teacher and taken up by his post-beginner students in a Thai university setting. A framework of verbal art is adopted in order to locate this use of humour in relation to both l…
Nineteenth‐Century Beefs
10.1080/08905495.2010.530401
Introduction
In perhaps her most famous comment, Isabella Beeton, the doyenne of Victorian cookery, proclaimed, “Dining is the privilege of civilization” (363). Dinner, she went on to explain, “is a matter of considerable importance; and a well-served table is a striking index of human ingenuity and resource” (363). That “much depends on dinner” has been widely recognized in a variety of contexts since Beeton made this pronouncement in her Book of Household M…
The Narcissism of Empire
Reviewed by: The Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen Ross G. Forman (bio) The Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen, by Diane Simmons; pp. x + 148. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2007, £55.00, £17.95 paper, $57.50, $29.50…
Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle
Reviewed by: Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: The Brutal Tongue Ross G. Forman (bio) Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: The Brutal Tongue, by Christine Ferguson; pp. x + 180. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2006, $89.95, £55.00. In his “Minute on Indian Education” (1835), Thomas Babington Macaulay infamously urged Parliament to create a class of English-speaking Indians to…
Fortress Europe and Its ‘Others’
With its geographical position on the edge of Europe and its lack of commitment to the Schengen border agreement that unites much of the Continent, Britain may, at first glance, be an odd place to
Fictions of Affliction
Masters of All They Surveyed
Peking Plots
“A handful of foreigners have shown China what they can do against murderous thousands, and it only remains for the Powers to stamp the lesson deeper, and exact punishment for the guilty and full compensation for losses sustained.” — W. Murray Graydon, The Perils of Pekin (1904) “To find something akin in its savage barbarity you must go back to Lucknow, where a mixed multitude shut up in the Residency were holding out against fearful odds in exp…
When Britons Brave Brazil
How local teachers respond to the culture and language of a global English as a Foreign Language textbook
The global textbook has an enormous influence upon what is taught in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. As Akbari has noted, our era is not simply ‘postmethod’, but one of ‘textbook-defined practice’. What happens, then, when a global EFL textbook is selected for use with Year 1 students at a Thai university? How appropriate is the content; and how do local teachers respond? To date, while there has been considerable analysis of the …
Theater of the Impressed
Peking Plots
“A handful of foreigners have shown China what they can do against murderous thousands, and it only remains for the Powers to stamp the lesson deeper, and exact punishment for the guilty and full compensation for losses sustained.” — W. Murray Graydon, The Perils of Pekin (1904) “To find something akin in its savage barbarity you must go back to Lucknow, where a mixed multitude shut up in the Residency were holding out against fearful odds in exp…
Nothing corresponding to it in China”
This paper considers Britain’s first large-scale Chinese restaurant, situated within the 1884 International Health Exhibition in London. It asks what cultural work this Chinese restaurant and associated tearoom performed by considering two interrelated factors that governed the relationship between Britain and the British Empire, Europe, and the United States and China in the 1880s: The first is the recovery of exhibition culture’s key role in th…
Nineteenth‐Century Beefs
10.1080/08905495.2010.530401
Peking Plots
“A handful of foreigners have shown China what they can do against murderous thousands, and it only remains for the Powers to stamp the lesson deeper, and exact punishment for the guilty and full compensation for losses sustained.” — W. Murray Graydon, The Perils of Pekin (1904) “To find something akin in its savage barbarity you must go back to Lucknow, where a mixed multitude shut up in the Residency were holding out against fearful odds in exp…
When Britons Brave Brazil
Masters of All They Surveyed
Fortress Europe and Its ‘Others’
With its geographical position on the edge of Europe and its lack of commitment to the Schengen border agreement that unites much of the Continent, Britain may, at first glance, be an odd place to
Fictions of Affliction
Introduction
In perhaps her most famous comment, Isabella Beeton, the doyenne of Victorian cookery, proclaimed, “Dining is the privilege of civilization” (363). Dinner, she went on to explain, “is a matter of considerable importance; and a well-served table is a striking index of human ingenuity and resource” (363). That “much depends on dinner” has been widely recognized in a variety of contexts since Beeton made this pronouncement in her Book of Household M…
The Narcissism of Empire
Reviewed by: The Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen Ross G. Forman (bio) The Narcissism of Empire: Loss, Rage and Revenge in Thomas De Quincey, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling and Isak Dinesen, by Diane Simmons; pp. x + 148. Brighton and Portland: Sussex Academic Press, 2007, £55.00, £17.95 paper, $57.50, $29.50…
Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle
Reviewed by: Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: The Brutal Tongue Ross G. Forman (bio) Language, Science and Popular Fiction in the Victorian Fin-de-Siècle: The Brutal Tongue, by Christine Ferguson; pp. x + 180. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2006, $89.95, £55.00. In his “Minute on Indian Education” (1835), Thomas Babington Macaulay infamously urged Parliament to create a class of English-speaking Indians to…
Nineteenth‐Century Beefs
10.1080/08905495.2010.530401
Humorous Language Play in a Thai EFL Classroom
The relationship between creativity, play, and language learning has been of increasing interest over the past decade, but the role of humour itself in SLL remains significantly under-explored. The present study examines humorous language play initiated by a bilingual EFL teacher and taken up by his post-beginner students in a Thai university setting. A framework of verbal art is adopted in order to locate this use of humour in relation to both l…
China and the Victorian Imagination
What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilitie…
How local teachers respond to the culture and language of a global English as a Foreign Language textbook
The global textbook has an enormous influence upon what is taught in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. As Akbari has noted, our era is not simply ‘postmethod’, but one of ‘textbook-defined practice’. What happens, then, when a global EFL textbook is selected for use with Year 1 students at a Thai university? How appropriate is the content; and how do local teachers respond? To date, while there has been considerable analysis of the …
A Parasite for Sore Eyes
Since the late 1980s and Elaine Showalter's influential Sexual Anarchy , it has become axiomatic to read Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula as a text that responds to anxieties of degeneration through metaphors of infection (184). Given the obvious sexual nature of the threat represented by the vampire, critics have focused on syphilis as the text's most immediate disease of reference. They have identified many important correspondences between Sto…
Theater of the Impressed
Nothing corresponding to it in China”
This paper considers Britain’s first large-scale Chinese restaurant, situated within the 1884 International Health Exhibition in London. It asks what cultural work this Chinese restaurant and associated tearoom performed by considering two interrelated factors that governed the relationship between Britain and the British Empire, Europe, and the United States and China in the 1880s: The first is the recovery of exhibition culture’s key role in th…
From Reading to Rio
This essay examines the reverberations of the Oscar Wilde trials in Brazil, using it to probe how a “widening” of Victorian studies might work and arguing that looking beyond the use nodes of comparison enriches our understanding of the long nineteenth century
Migrant Visibility, Agency, and Identity Work in Hospitality Enterprises
This article examines how migrants create value through food- and hospitality-related enterprises, focusing on the ways in which they exercise their agency in mobilizing various cultural resources and on how their organizational practices intersect with identity work. Drawing on empirical research conducted in São Paulo, Brazil, it explores how specific dishes, knowledge of food, recipes, craft skills, and migration histories are transformed into…
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