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Sidney Philip , An Apologie for Poetry (London, 1595), sig. K4.

Sidney Philip , Syr P. S. His Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591), p. 2.

Ascham Roger , Toxophilus: The Schole of Shoting, in English Works, ed. Wright William Aldis (Cambridge, 1904), p. xiv.

Puttenham George , Arte of English Poesie (1589), pp. 120–1.

Burney Frances , The Complete Plays of Frances Burney, ed. Sabor Peter (Oxford, 1995); Darby Barbara , Frances Burney, Dramatist: Gender, Performance and the Late-Eighteenth-Century Stage (Lexington, 1997).

As Saggini notes, she is drawing on Barthes's idea of the ‘writerly reader’ as a type of ‘transitive user’. See Barthes Roland , S/Z, trans. Miller Richard (London, 1975), pp. 4, 15.

Donkin Ellen , Getting into the Act: Women Playwrights in London 1776–1829 (London, 1995), pp. 136–8.

Gustafson Sandra , ‘The Emerging Media of Early America’, in Gustafson Sandra Sloat Caroline F. (eds), Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900 (Notre Dame, 2010), p. 349.

An alternative option might have been to choose examples drawn from different parts of the United Kingdom, though this would of course have limited the study in other ways.

See Simon J. White , Robert Bloomfield and the Poetry of Community (Aldershot, 2007).

Emerson Ralph Waldo , ‘Self-Reliance’ [1841], Nature and Selected Essays (New York, 2003), pp. 175–204.

Emerson Ralph Waldo , ‘Experience’ [1844], Nature and Selected Essays (New York, 2003), p. 285.

Weil Kari , Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now? (New York, 2012), p. 23.

See Philip Armstrong, What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity (London and New York, 2008), pp. 77–98 and Rohman Carrie , Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal (New York, 2009), pp. 63–99.

Garrard Greg , Ecocriticism (Abingdon, 2011), p. 203.

Soja Edward W. , Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (New York, 1989), p. 16.

Lefebvre Henri , The Production of Space, trans. Nicolson-Smith Donald (Oxford, 1991), p. 13.

Douglas Mary , Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concept of Pollution and Taboo (London, 2002), p. 44. qtd. in Hwang , p. 10.

Augé Marc , Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, trans. Howe John (London, 1995).

Derrida Jacques , Specters of Marx, trans. Kamuf Peggy (London, 1994), p. 37.

Foucault Michel , ‘Of Other Spaces’, trans. Miskowiec Jay , Diacritics 17 (Spring 1986), 22–7.

Ibid., p. 25.

Woolf Virginia , To the Lighthouse, ed. Bradshaw David (Oxford, 2008), p. 199.

Eliot T. S. , ‘Burnt Norton’ (1935), Four Quartets, in T.S. Eliot: The Complete Poems and Plays (London, 1969), 1.11, p. 171.

Ibid., 1.65, p. 173.

See http://www.countrylife.co.uk/countryside/article/532370/Are-you-a-modern-day-gentleman-.html.

See, for instance, The British Journal for the History of Science 45.4 (2012) for a special edition on ‘British Nuclear Culture’.

Nadel Alan , Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age (Durham, 1995), p. xi.

May Elaine Tyler , Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era, rev. ed. (New York, 1999), p.xxiv.

Sutcliff Rosemary , Simon (Oxford, 1971), p. 80.

de Garde Peach Lawrence , Julius Caesar and Roman Britain (Loughborough, 1959), p. 46.

Ibid., p. 50.

Trease Geoffrey , Bows Against the Barons (London, 1934), pp. 34, 136 and 61.

Ross Stewart , Down with the Romans! (London, 2006), p. 25.

See Davis Lennard J. , Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness and the Body (London, 1995), pp. 23–49.

See Davis Lennard J. , Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism and Other Difficult Positions (New York, 2002), pp. 9–32.