Shelley Trower
Biographic Data
| ID | 2275472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelley Trower |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelley |
| FAMILY NAME | Trower |
| SIGNATURE | TROWER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5121-5357 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading, Race, and Remembering Childhood Abuse—Returning to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
For many readers, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings stands out as a memorable, even life-changing book. Some readers have written autobiographically about reading this autobiographical text. In this essay, I look briefly at some of this writing about reading Angelou’s book, asking how it has affected different readers in the US and UK at different moments. For many, Angelou’s representation of Black experience in the American South, …
Primitive Rocks: Humphry Davy, Mining, and the Sublime Landscapes of Cornwall’
Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity
Mysticism myth and Celtic identity
Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradtion and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic contexts. The authors consider how aspects of the past are reinterpreted or reimagined in a variety of ways to give coherence to desired national groupings…
On the Cliff Edge of England: Tourism and Imperial Gothic in Cornwall
The final chapters of Bram Stoker's novel The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) are set in a house on the “very verge” of a cliff in Cornwall, the peninsula located at the far south west of England. The narrator, Malcolm Ross, travels overnight from London to Cornwall, then describes his first sight of the house, and a little later the position of the dining-room, its walls hanging over the sea: We were all impressed by the house as it appeared in the …
Upwards of 20,000: Extrasensory Quantities of Railway Shock
Railway travel generated new forms of sensory experience in the nineteenth century. One of the most immediate sensations was of vibration, which contrasted with the irregular jolts experienced when traveling by horse and coach. Medical writers became concerned that although travelers were unaware of the large quantity of movements undergone on the railway—as the individual jolts of coach travel were lost to a sense of relatively smooth, continuou…
Upwards of 20,000: Extrasensory Quantities of Railway Shock
Railway travel generated new forms of sensory experience in the nineteenth century. One of the most immediate sensations was of vibration, which contrasted with the irregular jolts experienced when traveling by horse and coach. Medical writers became concerned that although travelers were unaware of the large quantity of movements undergone on the railway—as the individual jolts of coach travel were lost to a sense of relatively smooth, continuou…
Primitive Rocks: Humphry Davy, Mining, and the Sublime Landscapes of Cornwall’
Upwards of 20,000: Extrasensory Quantities of Railway Shock
Railway travel generated new forms of sensory experience in the nineteenth century. One of the most immediate sensations was of vibration, which contrasted with the irregular jolts experienced when traveling by horse and coach. Medical writers became concerned that although travelers were unaware of the large quantity of movements undergone on the railway—as the individual jolts of coach travel were lost to a sense of relatively smooth, continuou…
Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity
Mysticism myth and Celtic identity
Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradtion and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic contexts. The authors consider how aspects of the past are reinterpreted or reimagined in a variety of ways to give coherence to desired national groupings…
On the Cliff Edge of England: Tourism and Imperial Gothic in Cornwall
The final chapters of Bram Stoker's novel The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) are set in a house on the “very verge” of a cliff in Cornwall, the peninsula located at the far south west of England. The narrator, Malcolm Ross, travels overnight from London to Cornwall, then describes his first sight of the house, and a little later the position of the dining-room, its walls hanging over the sea: We were all impressed by the house as it appeared in the …
Primitive Rocks: Humphry Davy, Mining, and the Sublime Landscapes of Cornwall’
Reading, Race, and Remembering Childhood Abuse—Returning to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
For many readers, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings stands out as a memorable, even life-changing book. Some readers have written autobiographically about reading this autobiographical text. In this essay, I look briefly at some of this writing about reading Angelou’s book, asking how it has affected different readers in the US and UK at different moments. For many, Angelou’s representation of Black experience in the American South, …
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