Nick Freeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Freeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEMAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8085-8079 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Essays: Defending and Describing Decadence
This article examines the phenomenon of the “decadent essay” through discussion of works by significant practitioners of the form, such as Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm. It argues that decadent writers played a sophisticated game whereby they adapted the discussion of their interests to the needs of the marketplace without appearing to make commercially-driven compromises. Using Virginia Woolf’s views of the essay as a defining reference point, th…
Even the dogs are shocked
‘Scandals used to add charm, or at least interest, to a man – now they crush him’, purrs Mrs Cheveley in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband (1895). Scandal did indeed crush Wilde, as it did other figures from the 1890s such as Charles Stewart Parnell or, more deservingly, the politician and fraudster, Jabez Balfour. But it was possible to endure high-profile court cases and live to fight another day. One man who did was Frank, 2nd Earl Russell, the s…
Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams, by Aren Roukema
Poisonous honey’: Recent writing on decadence and the 1890s
This essay is a round‐up of recent developments in research into decadence. Decadent literature and art have always had their adherents, but from the mid‐1980s, the growing influence of feminism and other forms of gendered reading, notably queer theory, began to transform their scholarly understanding. Rather than simply being concerned with artistic autonomy and despising the vulgar herd, decadents such as Oscar Wilde raised questions of subject…
Weird realism
This essay examines the relationship between weird fiction and forms of realist practice. It argues that realism’s concerns with exteriority and detail make it peculiarly suitable for (and receptive to) ‘weirding’, a claim explored in readings of fiction by Robert Aickman (1914–1981) and M. John Harrison (b.1945)
Stanley Weintraub, Farewell, Victoria! British Literature 1880–1900
Navigating the Economic Reform Process
Southeast Asian Affairs is the only one of its kind: a comprehensive annual review devoted to the international relations, politics, and economies of the region and its nation-states. The collected volumes of Southeast Asian Affairs have become a compendium documenting the dynamic evolution of regional and national developments in Southeast Asia from the end of the 'second' Vietnam War to the alarms and struggles of today. Over the years, the edi…
Oo Let 'Em In?’
Journal Article ‘Oo Let ’Em In?’ Get access David Glover Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013x+260 pp£55.00 (hardback)ISBN 978-1-107-02281-2 Nick Freeman Nick Freeman 1Loughborough University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, Issue 4, 1 December 2013, Pages 572–575, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2013.869920 Published: 01 December 2013
Mad music rising’: Chopin, Sex, and Secret Language in Arthur Symons’ ‘Christian Trevalga’
This essay examines Arthur Symons’ short story, ‘Christian Trevalga’ from his Spiritual Adventures (1905). It aims to a) situate it in the context of wider late-Victorian considerations of pianistic performance and Symons’ adulation of Vladimir de Pachmann, b) examine its application of Symons’ theories about music, as advanced in his contemporaneous critical essays, and c) investigate the ways in which the story makes a suggestive link between m…
Robert C. Richardson Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
Writers of Gothic
Ainsworth made his first venture into sensational fiction with ‘The Test of Affection’ (European Magazine, 1822), a tale that relies heavily on artificial ‘SUPERNATURAL’ devices in the ANN RADCLIFFE mode for its effect. It was followed by ‘The Spectre Bride’ (Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1822) and his early Gothic tales were collected in his first book, the anonymous December Tales (1823). All of this youthful work — which displays more enthusiasm t…
A Country for the Savant: Paganism, Popular Fiction and the Invention of Greece, 1914-1966
This essay explores the ways in which certain British writers reimagined Greece in the period 1914-66. It is especially concerned with the ways in which Greece represents a ‘pagan’ space in which characters encounter modes of living and belief far removed from those they are used to. With particular reference to John Buchan, Sarban, and Robert Aickman, the essay argues that the disparity between ‘real’ and ‘imagined’ Greece led writers into the d…
The Shrineless God: Paganism, Literature and Art in Fortiesí Britain
This article explores the lingering remnants of a late Victorian 'paganism' in Britain during the 1940s, and traces some of the cultural consequences of the meeting between this and the often propagandist concern with a mythic England seen throughout World War II. A loose network of literary texts, art works and films is examined in order to suggest that the 1940s is a pivotal decade between the relatively genteel and individualistic 'pagan' symp…
Laos: Exiguous Evidence of Economic Reform and Development
There were relatively few surprising or significant developments in Laos during 2003, although various events served to underline the rather unique character and specific challenges that confront one of Southeast Asia's least developed countries. And although the gradual pace at which events tend to occur in Laos did not accelerate in 2003, there were some interesting twists and turns to be observed during the year
The Shrineless God: Paganism, Literature and Art in Forties' Britain
This article explores the lingering remnants of a late Victorian ‘paganism’ in Britain during the 1940s, and traces some of the cultural consequences of the meeting between this and the often propagandist concern with a mythic England seen throughout World War II. A loose network of literary texts, art works and films is examined in order to suggest that the 1940s is a pivotal decade between the relatively genteel and individualistic ‘pagan’ symp…
Harnessing foreign direct investment for economic development and poverty reduction: Lessons from Vietnam
Vietnam has been successful in attracting substantial foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. The foreign-invested sector is an important engine of economic growth for Vietnam. The first part of the article profiles Vietnam’s experience in attracting FDI since the late 1980s, and identifies the factors that lay behind a subsequent contraction in FDI inflows during the latter half of the 1990s. The second part identifies areas where Vietnam might…
Pragmatism in the face of adversity: Enterprise reform in Laos
Enterprise reform undertaken by Laos during the past fifteen years of economic transition has largely entailed a relatively successful privatization programme for the country’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs). However, problems remain with the larger ‘strategic’ SOEs that continue to operate, and the state-run commercial banks that continue to fund their loss-making operations, despite on-going attempts to ‘commercialize’ the business activities o…
Laos: Sedately Seguing into the Twenty‐First Century
Introduction After a relatively torrid couple of years, beset with substantial economic difficulties, 2001 was more sedate for the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The signs of political unrest and sporadic acts of terrorism that Laos witnessed throughout 2000 also appeared to fully abate in early 2001. Spiralling inflation has largely been brought under control, as has the foreign exchange rate for the Lao kip. The Seventh Congress of the Lao P…
Southeast Asia ́s Economies: Corporate Sector Concerns Return to the Fore
Introduction One could almost hear the collective sigh of relief that echoed around the capitals of Southeast Asia in late 1999 and early 2000, as most countries' economic growth rates returned to positive territory, and the anni horribilis of 1997-98 began to fade into memory. During the first half of 2000, economists began to talk of a V-shaped recovery for the region in the propitious Year of the Dragon. In big picture terms at least, Southeas…
The Terror of Unseen Things’: Saki and the fin-de-siècle Pagan Revival
Saki grew up in a place in which the daily doings of the world were not always determined by the laws of science or the orthodoxies of the Anglican church
A Regional Platform for Trading Southeast Asian Equities: Viable Option or 'Red Herring
With the exception of a relatively brief rally during late 1998 and early 1999, Southeast Asia's five main equity markets have not performed well since the onset of the financial crisis in mid-1997. This paper identifies some of the reasons attributable for this relatively poor performance, and discusses one proposed solution - creating a region-wide platform for the trading of Southeast Asian equities. In particular, the paper assesses what such…
Development of differentiation between writing and drawing systems
When does a writing system emerge out of children's drawing to separate (a) script processing and production from (b) picture processing and production? And does one system's activation help or hinder the other system's operation? Children 4-12 years of age wrote repeated Os and Vs and drew matching shapes, in the contexts of script and of pictures. The technique elicits matching products in order to identify differences between production kinema…
Greater Mekong Sub‐Region And the “Asian Crisis”: Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis
Laos: No Safe Haven from the Regional Tumult
1997 was the year Laos entered the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a full member, and persisted with a more outward-looking ? albeit still relatively reserved ? stance towards the enveloping region, and the international community as a whole. Unfortunately, the country's opening up coincided with a marked dip in the economic fortunes of Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, on which land-locked Laos remains heavily dependent fo…
Vietnam: Better Managing Reform
Nineteen ninety-five was an eventful year for Vietnam, as the country marked the twendeth anniversary of its reunification, the fiftieth anniversary of Ho Chi Minh's declaration of independence, and the sixty-fifth anniversaries of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnam Fatherland Front. It was also the year that Hanoi finally normalized its relations with Washington, and gained full membership status in the Association of…
Development of differentiation between writing and drawing systems
When does a writing system emerge out of children's drawing to separate (a) script processing and production from (b) picture processing and production? And does one system's activation help or hinder the other system's operation? Children 4-12 years of age wrote repeated Os and Vs and drew matching shapes, in the contexts of script and of pictures. The technique elicits matching products in order to identify differences between production kinema…
Pragmatism in the face of adversity: Enterprise reform in Laos
Enterprise reform undertaken by Laos during the past fifteen years of economic transition has largely entailed a relatively successful privatization programme for the country’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs). However, problems remain with the larger ‘strategic’ SOEs that continue to operate, and the state-run commercial banks that continue to fund their loss-making operations, despite on-going attempts to ‘commercialize’ the business activities o…
Two cities: Hanoi and Saigon
Critical Empiricism Criticized: The Case of Freud
The Influence of Short‐term Novelty on Affective Assertions in Young Children
It is a common finding that young children will express affective preference for short‐term novelty. However, it is often not clear whether this is because they like the novelty or dislike the familiarity, or both. In this study, novel and familiar pictures were presented for binary choice under one instructional condition per group of subjects ‐ either to indicate which one they liked or which one they did not like. The children liked the novelt…
Affective Preference and Misclassification in a Novel/Familiar Identification Task
Subjects were asked to categorize stimuli, half of which had been pre‐exposed, as familiar or novel, and to rate them on a three‐point scale of affective preference. Rating scores were computed separately for those stimuli which were correctly categorized as novel and familiar, and those which were incorrectly categorized. It was found that subjects preferred the familiar stimuli significantly more than the novel on trials on which these were cor…
The allative bias in three-year-olds is almost proof against task naturalness
An allative bias has been noted in children's comprehension of deictic verbs and directional prepositions. This study investigates the allative bias and its susceptibility to contextual modification. Three-year-olds were asked to act according to requests to move one object to or from another, and to identify where an object had come from or gone to. A reliable bias was found whereby ‘to’ was easier than ‘from’. Attempts to make the utterance mor…
Acquiring Conversational Competence
Two cities: Hanoi and Saigon
Reinventing Vietnamese Socialism: Doi Moi in Comparative Perspective
Vietnam: Better Managing Reform
Nineteen ninety-five was an eventful year for Vietnam, as the country marked the twendeth anniversary of its reunification, the fiftieth anniversary of Ho Chi Minh's declaration of independence, and the sixty-fifth anniversaries of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnam Fatherland Front. It was also the year that Hanoi finally normalized its relations with Washington, and gained full membership status in the Association of…
Fighting the “Non‐Attributable War” in Laos: A Review Article
Fighting the “Non‐Attributable War” in Laos: A Review Article
Laos: No Safe Haven from the Regional Tumult
1997 was the year Laos entered the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a full member, and persisted with a more outward-looking ? albeit still relatively reserved ? stance towards the enveloping region, and the international community as a whole. Unfortunately, the country's opening up coincided with a marked dip in the economic fortunes of Southeast Asia, particularly Thailand, on which land-locked Laos remains heavily dependent fo…
Greater Mekong Sub‐Region And the “Asian Crisis”: Caught Between Scylla and Charybdis
Southeast Asia ́s Economies: Corporate Sector Concerns Return to the Fore
Introduction One could almost hear the collective sigh of relief that echoed around the capitals of Southeast Asia in late 1999 and early 2000, as most countries' economic growth rates returned to positive territory, and the anni horribilis of 1997-98 began to fade into memory. During the first half of 2000, economists began to talk of a V-shaped recovery for the region in the propitious Year of the Dragon. In big picture terms at least, Southeas…
The Terror of Unseen Things’: Saki and the fin-de-siècle Pagan Revival
Saki grew up in a place in which the daily doings of the world were not always determined by the laws of science or the orthodoxies of the Anglican church
A Regional Platform for Trading Southeast Asian Equities: Viable Option or 'Red Herring
With the exception of a relatively brief rally during late 1998 and early 1999, Southeast Asia's five main equity markets have not performed well since the onset of the financial crisis in mid-1997. This paper identifies some of the reasons attributable for this relatively poor performance, and discusses one proposed solution - creating a region-wide platform for the trading of Southeast Asian equities. In particular, the paper assesses what such…
Development of differentiation between writing and drawing systems
When does a writing system emerge out of children's drawing to separate (a) script processing and production from (b) picture processing and production? And does one system's activation help or hinder the other system's operation? Children 4-12 years of age wrote repeated Os and Vs and drew matching shapes, in the contexts of script and of pictures. The technique elicits matching products in order to identify differences between production kinema…
Laos: Sedately Seguing into the Twenty‐First Century
Introduction After a relatively torrid couple of years, beset with substantial economic difficulties, 2001 was more sedate for the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The signs of political unrest and sporadic acts of terrorism that Laos witnessed throughout 2000 also appeared to fully abate in early 2001. Spiralling inflation has largely been brought under control, as has the foreign exchange rate for the Lao kip. The Seventh Congress of the Lao P…
Pragmatism in the face of adversity: Enterprise reform in Laos
Enterprise reform undertaken by Laos during the past fifteen years of economic transition has largely entailed a relatively successful privatization programme for the country’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs). However, problems remain with the larger ‘strategic’ SOEs that continue to operate, and the state-run commercial banks that continue to fund their loss-making operations, despite on-going attempts to ‘commercialize’ the business activities o…
Laos: Exiguous Evidence of Economic Reform and Development
There were relatively few surprising or significant developments in Laos during 2003, although various events served to underline the rather unique character and specific challenges that confront one of Southeast Asia's least developed countries. And although the gradual pace at which events tend to occur in Laos did not accelerate in 2003, there were some interesting twists and turns to be observed during the year
The Shrineless God: Paganism, Literature and Art in Forties' Britain
This article explores the lingering remnants of a late Victorian ‘paganism’ in Britain during the 1940s, and traces some of the cultural consequences of the meeting between this and the often propagandist concern with a mythic England seen throughout World War II. A loose network of literary texts, art works and films is examined in order to suggest that the 1940s is a pivotal decade between the relatively genteel and individualistic ‘pagan’ symp…
Harnessing foreign direct investment for economic development and poverty reduction: Lessons from Vietnam
Vietnam has been successful in attracting substantial foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. The foreign-invested sector is an important engine of economic growth for Vietnam. The first part of the article profiles Vietnam’s experience in attracting FDI since the late 1980s, and identifies the factors that lay behind a subsequent contraction in FDI inflows during the latter half of the 1990s. The second part identifies areas where Vietnam might…
The Shrineless God: Paganism, Literature and Art in Fortiesí Britain
This article explores the lingering remnants of a late Victorian 'paganism' in Britain during the 1940s, and traces some of the cultural consequences of the meeting between this and the often propagandist concern with a mythic England seen throughout World War II. A loose network of literary texts, art works and films is examined in order to suggest that the 1940s is a pivotal decade between the relatively genteel and individualistic 'pagan' symp…
A Country for the Savant: Paganism, Popular Fiction and the Invention of Greece, 1914-1966
This essay explores the ways in which certain British writers reimagined Greece in the period 1914-66. It is especially concerned with the ways in which Greece represents a ‘pagan’ space in which characters encounter modes of living and belief far removed from those they are used to. With particular reference to John Buchan, Sarban, and Robert Aickman, the essay argues that the disparity between ‘real’ and ‘imagined’ Greece led writers into the d…
Writers of Gothic
Ainsworth made his first venture into sensational fiction with ‘The Test of Affection’ (European Magazine, 1822), a tale that relies heavily on artificial ‘SUPERNATURAL’ devices in the ANN RADCLIFFE mode for its effect. It was followed by ‘The Spectre Bride’ (Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1822) and his early Gothic tales were collected in his first book, the anonymous December Tales (1823). All of this youthful work — which displays more enthusiasm t…
Robert C. Richardson Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
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