Jodie Matthews
Biographic Data
| ID | 5884692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jodie Matthews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jodie |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthews |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHEWS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Huddersfield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8876-4264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gordon Biddle, 200 Years of the Lancaster Canal
Mobilising the Imperial Uncanny
To the fine global consumers of luxury goods produced by British industry, Dickens's narrator of Hard Times tells us, Coketown was not to be mentioned. Thoughts of the dirty means of production and the people engaged in it must be repressed to allow the continuing and smooth function of imperial capitalist enterprise. I suggest an analogous nineteenth-century repression (and Dickens himself was quick to make analogies with Coketown), one hinted a…
Thousands of these floating hovels”
Tsiganes on the Brain’
The article identifies some of the ways in which the ‘Victorian Gypsy’ was constructed by a group of authors known as Gypsy lorists, and develops reading strategies that highlight the politics of their writing, in particular using Jacques Derrida's theorisation of the archive. For the Victorians, it seemed that the Gypsy way of life would soon die out. The Gypsies' apparently imminent disappearance marks their world as delicate, natural and forme…
Back where they belong
Examples of Victorian children’s literature are examined to consider the recycling of the ‘Gypsy’ child-stealing myth, with attention drawn to common features of the stories as an indicator of the narratives’ cultural function. Fictions about the adoption and conversion of Gypsy children are read not as texts that tell opposite stories about where Gypsy and non-Gypsy children should reside – with their own or adoptive parents – but as narratives …
Mobilising the Imperial Uncanny
To the fine global consumers of luxury goods produced by British industry, Dickens's narrator of Hard Times tells us, Coketown was not to be mentioned. Thoughts of the dirty means of production and the people engaged in it must be repressed to allow the continuing and smooth function of imperial capitalist enterprise. I suggest an analogous nineteenth-century repression (and Dickens himself was quick to make analogies with Coketown), one hinted a…
Back where they belong
Examples of Victorian children’s literature are examined to consider the recycling of the ‘Gypsy’ child-stealing myth, with attention drawn to common features of the stories as an indicator of the narratives’ cultural function. Fictions about the adoption and conversion of Gypsy children are read not as texts that tell opposite stories about where Gypsy and non-Gypsy children should reside – with their own or adoptive parents – but as narratives …
Thousands of these floating hovels”
Tsiganes on the Brain’
The article identifies some of the ways in which the ‘Victorian Gypsy’ was constructed by a group of authors known as Gypsy lorists, and develops reading strategies that highlight the politics of their writing, in particular using Jacques Derrida's theorisation of the archive. For the Victorians, it seemed that the Gypsy way of life would soon die out. The Gypsies' apparently imminent disappearance marks their world as delicate, natural and forme…
Mobilising the Imperial Uncanny
To the fine global consumers of luxury goods produced by British industry, Dickens's narrator of Hard Times tells us, Coketown was not to be mentioned. Thoughts of the dirty means of production and the people engaged in it must be repressed to allow the continuing and smooth function of imperial capitalist enterprise. I suggest an analogous nineteenth-century repression (and Dickens himself was quick to make analogies with Coketown), one hinted a…
Gordon Biddle, 200 Years of the Lancaster Canal
History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philippine History and Culture (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (3 works) · Engineering (2 works)