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Reviews: Fictions of Conversion: Jews,Christians,and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England,Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III,Shakespeare and the Law: A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions,the Accommodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales,the Romantic Crowd: Sympathy,Controversy and Print Culture,Romantic Readers and Transatlantic Travel: Expeditions and Tours in North America,1760–1840,in the Shadow of the Gallows: Race,Crime,and American Civic Identity,Unusual Suspects: Pitt's Reign of Alarm and the Lost Generation of the 1790s,Romanticism and Childhood: The Infantilization of British Literary Culture,Reading Victorian Deafness: Signs and Sounds in Victorian Literature and Culture,Economic Woman: Demand,Gender,and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy,We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity,Dying for Time: Proust,Woolf and Nabokov,Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism,Regional Modernisms,the New Death: American Modernism and World War I,Samuel Roth,Infamous Modernist,the Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War,Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship,1945–1960,London Irish Fictions: Narrative,Diaspora and Identity
On the phrase ‘turning Turk’ see, for example, Daniel J. Vitkus, Turning Turk: English Theater and the Multicultural Mediterranean, 1570–1630 (New York, 2003).
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ShaganEthan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge, 2003), p. 7.
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ShakespeareWilliam, Richard III, ed. CartelliThomas (New York, 2009), I.i.6.
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Ibid., I.i.4.
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RuffieldPaulWattGary (eds), Shakespeare and the Law (Oxford, 2008) and JordanConstanceCunninghamKaren (eds), The Law in Shakespeare (Basingstoke, 2007).
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ShakespeareWilliam, King Lear, in ed. BevingtonDavid, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5 th ed. (New York, 2004), pp. 1201–54; II.iv.266.
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de MontaigneMichel, ‘An Apologie of Raymond Sebond’, in ed. StewartJ. I. M., The Essayes of Montaigne: John Florio's Translation (New York, 1933), pp. 385–547; p. 399.
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AlexanderMichelle, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New York, 2010).
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On Wordsworth's ‘turn’ in the 1790s, see RiederJohn, Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn: Community, Virtue and Vision in the 1790s (London, 1997); BaileyQuentin, Wordsworth's Vagrants: Politice, Prisons and Poetry in the 1790s (Farnham, 2011); and JohnsonKenneth, The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy (London, 1998).
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See for example AndersonRobert‘Godwin Disguised: Politics in the Juvenile Library’ in ManiquisRobert M.MyersVictoria (eds), Godwinian Moments: From the Enlightenment to Romanticism (Toronto, 2011), 125–46; and ThompsonJudith, ‘Re-Sounding Romanticism: John Thelwall and the Science and Practice of Elocution,’ in DickAlexEsterhammerAngela (eds), Spheres of Action: Language and Performance in Romantic Culture (Toronto, 2009), pp. 21–45.
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JeffreyFrancis, ‘Review of Wordsworth, Poems, in Two Volumes', Edinburgh Review, 11 (1807), 214–31, p. 220.
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The term ‘digital natives’ is often attributed to Marc Prensky, who uses it in his essay, ‘Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1’, On the Horizon, 9:5 (2001), 1–6. For a more recent assessment of the term, see PalfreyJohnGasserUrs, Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (New York, 2008).
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The phrase is Alexander Zinoviev's. See FitzpatrickSheila, Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Oxford, 1999) pp. 8–9 for an explanation of the importance of this concept for Soviet life.
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TrotskyLeon, The History of the Russian Revolution (New York, 2008), pp. 4–5.
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McGuirePatrick, Red Star: Political Aspects of Soviet Science Fiction (Ann Arbor, 1985); GriffithsJohn, Three Tomorrows: American, British and Russian Science Fiction (London, 1980); GladJohn, Extrapolations from Dystopia: A Critical Study of Russian Science Fiction (Princeton, 1982).
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YoungGeorge M., The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Federov and his Followers (Oxford, 2012), p. 3.
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PymanAvril, Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius: The Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Russia's Unknown Da Vinci (New York; London, 2010); GrahamLorenKantorJean-Michel, Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity (Cambridge; London, 2009).
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This enthusiasm is explored in Young, The Russian Cosmists, Ch. 12.
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CatherWilla, One of Ours (New York, 1965) pp. 392–3.
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YorkeHenryKeeneMary, 11 October 1943, Private Collection.
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CareyJohn, ‘Lust in a Time of Burning: Euphoria, Infidelity, Passionate Love Affairs’Sunday Times Culture Magazine, 13 January 2013, 37.
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GreenHenry, Caught (London, 2001), pp. 119, 46.
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BascaraVictor, Model Minority Imperialism (Minneapolis, 2006), p. 51.
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SaidEdward W., ‘Reflections on Exile’, in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Cambridge, MA, 2000), pp. 173–86, p. 173.
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BrahAvtar, Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities (New York, 1996), p. 181;qtd. by Murray on p. 12.
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See RicoeurPaul, Oneself as Another, Trans. BlameyKathleen (Chicago, 1992), pp. 147–8; see pp. 13–16 in Murray's volume.