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The Nation in British Literature and Culture
  • The Nation in British Literature and Culture
  • Edited by Andrew Murphy
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date: September 2023
  • Print publication: 30 September 2023
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    The Nation and British Literature and Culture charts the emergence of Britain as a political, social and cultural construct, examining the manner in which its constituent elements were brought together through a process of amalgamation and conquest. The fashioning of the nation through literature and culture is examined, as well as counter narratives that have sought to call national orthodoxies into question. Specific topics explored include the emergence of a distinctively national literature in the early modern period; the impact of French Revolution on conceptions of Britishness; portrayals of empire in popular and literary fiction; popular music and national imagining; the marginalisation and oppression of particular communities within the nation. The volume concludes by asking what implications an extended set of contemporary crises have for the ongoing survival both of the United Kingdom, both as a political unit and as a literary and cultural point of identity.
Contesting Social Welfare in Southeast Asia
  • Contesting Social Welfare in Southeast Asia
  • Andrew Rosser, John Murphy
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  • Expected online publication date: June 2023
  • Print publication: 31 July 2023
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    This Element argues that Southeast Asia's failure to develop stronger social protection systems has been, at its root, a matter of politics and power. It has reflected the political dominance within the region of predatory and technocratic elements, and the relative weakness of progressive elements. From the mid-1980s, democratisation, the emergence of political entrepreneurs seeking to mobilise mass electoral support, and the occurrence of severe economic and social crises generated pressure on governments within the region to strengthen their social protection systems. But while such developments shifted policy in a more progressive direction, they have been insufficient to produce far-reaching change. Rather, they have produced a layering effect. Innovations have built upon pre-existing policy and institutional arrangements without fundamentally altering these arrangements, ensuring that social protection systems continue to have strong conservative, productivist and predatory attributes.
  • Classical novae in the ASKAP pilot surveys
  • Ashna Gulati, Tara Murphy, David L. Kaplan, Roberto Soria, James K. Leung, Yuanming Wang, Joshua Pritchard, Emil Lenc, Stefan W. Duchesne, Andrew O’Brien
  • Journal: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 40 / 2023
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 May 2023, e025
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    We present a systematic search for radio counterparts of novae using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). Our search used the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey, which covered the entire sky south of declination $+41^{\circ}$ ( $\sim$ $34000$ square degrees) at a central frequency of 887.5 MHz, the Variables and Slow Transients Pilot Survey, which covered $\sim$ $5000$ square degrees per epoch (887.5 MHz), and other ASKAP pilot surveys, which covered $\sim$ 200–2000 square degrees with 2–12 h integration times. We crossmatched radio sources found in these surveys over a two–year period, from 2019 April to 2021 August, with 440 previously identified optical novae, and found radio counterparts for four novae: V5668 Sgr, V1369 Cen, YZ Ret, and RR Tel. Follow-up observations with the Australian Telescope Compact Array confirm the ejecta thinning across all observed bands with spectral analysis indicative of synchrotron emission in V1369 Cen and YZ Ret. Our light-curve fit with the Hubble Flow model yields a value of $1.65\pm 0.17 \times 10^{-4} \rm \:M_\odot$ for the mass ejected in V1369 Cen. We also derive a peak surface brightness temperature of $250\pm80$ K for YZ Ret. Using Hubble Flow model simulated radio lightcurves for novae, we demonstrate that with a 5 $\sigma$ sensitivity limit of 1.5 mJy in 15-min survey observations, we can detect radio emission up to a distance of 4 kpc if ejecta mass is in the range $10^{-3}\rm \:M_\odot$ , and upto 1 kpc if ejecta mass is in the range $10^{-5}$ – $10^{-3}\rm \:M_\odot$ . Our study highlights ASKAP’s ability to contribute to future radio observations for novae within a distance of 1 kpc hosted on white dwarfs with masses $0.4$ – $1.25\:\rm M_\odot$ , and within a distance of 4 kpc hosted on white dwarfs with masses $0.4$ – $1.0\:\rm M_\odot$ .

  • Mindful parenting intervention for parents of children with skin conditions: a single group experimental cases series
  • Connor Heapy, Paul Norman, Lisa-Marie Emerson, Ruth Murphy, Susan Bögels, Andrew R. Thompson
  • Journal: Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy / Volume 50 / Issue 5 / September 2022
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2022, pp. 462-480
  • Print publication: September 2022
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    Background:

    Parents of children with eczema or psoriasis experience high levels of parenting stress, which can negatively impact their child’s mental and physical health.

    Aims:

    We aimed to investigate the effectiveness, feasibility and acceptability of a mindful parenting intervention for parents of children with eczema or psoriasis.

    Method:

    Seven parents of children (4–12 years old) with eczema or psoriasis took part in an 8-week mindful parenting group intervention. A single-case experimental design was adopted, whereby parents completed daily idiographic measures of parenting stress related to their child’s skin condition. Parents also completed standardised questionnaires measuring their parenting stress, depression, anxiety and quality of life, and children completed a quality of life measure, at four time points: baseline, pre-intervention, post-intervention and 6-week follow-up. Parents provided qualitative feedback after the intervention.

    Results:

    All parents completed the intervention and showed improvements in idiographic measures of parenting stress from baseline to follow-up. Improvements in parenting stress were larger at follow-up than post-intervention, suggesting the benefits of intervention continue beyond the intervention. Six of seven parent–child dyads showed improvement in at least one of the wellbeing measures, from pre-intervention to post-intervention or follow-up. Feasibility was demonstrated through good participant retention, adherence to home practice, and treatment fidelity. Acceptability was demonstrated through positive parent evaluations of the intervention.

    Conclusions:

    Mindful parenting can be an effective, feasible and acceptable intervention for parents of children with eczema or psoriasis. Future studies should attempt to replicate the findings through randomised controlled trials.

  • Chapter 4 - Anglo-Irish Transitions
  • from Part I - Nation and Empire
  • Edited by James Purdon, University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • Book: British Literature in Transition, 1900–1920: A New Age?
  • Published online: 07 December 2021
  • Print publication: 02 December 2021, pp 91-105
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    In the early years of the twentieth century, the wide dissemination in Ireland of British popular literature (including penny dreadfuls, educational books, newspapers, and magazines) prompted an intensification of activities by Irish writers keen to preserve and support a distinct Irish literary tradition. Such activities ranged from W. B. Yeats’s efforts to construct a national canon centred on the folklore of an ancient Ireland predating English colonisation, to the nationalist vision of a new Gaelic Irish culture, predicated on Catholicism and the Irish language, promoted by figures such as D. P. Moran. There was of course much discussion, in this period, about how exactly Irish literature could define itself against British literature. Yet at the same time, even among many separatists, there was a very strong sense of attachment to English literary culture. This chapter describes the complex patterns of influence and resistance that shaped both British and Irish literature between 1900 and 1920 by examining some of the popular, periodical, pedagogical, and literary texts that were central to the traffic in ideas back and forth across the Irish sea.

  • 3 - Political Theory and Nostalgia: The Power of the Past in the History of Political Thought
  • Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Aalborg Universitet, Denmark
  • Book: Intimations of Nostalgia
  • Published by: Bristol University Press
  • Published online: 13 May 2022
  • Print publication: 05 November 2021, pp 70-88
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    Introduction

    I open this consideration of nostalgia and political theory with two passages from the history of political thought, and one from contemporary American politics. First, from Livy's History of Rome:

    The subjects to which I would ask each of my readers to devote his earnest attention are these: the life and morals of the community; the men and the qualities by which through domestic policy and foreign war dominion was won and extended. Then as the standard of morality gradually lowers, let him follow the decay of the national character, observing how at first it slowly sinks, then slips downward more and more rapidly, and finally begins to plunge into headlong ruin, until he reaches these days, in which we can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies. (Livy 1912: Preface)

    Livy thus introduces and frames his monumental work by contrasting a virtuous past with a degenerate present ‘in which we can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies’.

    Second – continuing with the theme of Livy – from Niccolò Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy:

    Men always praise (but not always reasonably) the ancient times and find fault with the present; and they are such partisans of things past, that they celebrate not only that age which has been recalled to their memory by known writers, but those also (being now old) which they remember having seen in their youth. (Machiavelli 1996: 123)

    Here, Machiavelli distinguishes between two phenomena that ‘men … celebrate’: ‘the ancient times’, or ‘that age which has been recalled to their memory by known writers’ (in other words, times of which they can have no direct knowledge, but must rely on history books), and a past that they have, at least purportedly, experienced first hand; in other words, that ‘(being now old) they remember having seen in their youth’.

    Third, to come closer to the present day, the 45th President of the United States: ‘When we were all younger – many of you are my age and many of you are younger – but when we were all younger we didn't lose so much, right? We don't win anymore. As a country, we don't win’ (Donald Trump, quoted in Johnson and Del Real 2016).

  • Making America Exceptional Again: Donald Trump's Traditionalist Jeremiad, Civil Religion, and the Politics of Resentment
  • Flavio R. Hickel, Jr., Andrew R. Murphy
  • Journal: Politics and Religion / Volume 15 / Issue 2 / June 2022
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2021, pp. 247-269
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    Donald Trump's campaign slogan to “Make America Great Again” captivated the imagination of millions of Americans by contextualizing disparate sources of social resentment as emblematic of a broader story of American decline. Employing a “traditionalist civil religious jeremiad,” Trump called for a reassertion of American exceptionalism, and extolled a romanticized golden age predating transformative social changes (e.g., sexuality, gender roles, racial equality). As such, his rhetoric legitimized the defense of white male privilege as a vital component of this restoration. While this use of civil religious themes emboldened those who harbor prejudicial views, it alienated others who interpret such rhetoric as an assault on the soul of the nation. Relying on a unique module within the 2018 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we demonstrate that adherence to the tenets of American civil religion significantly exacerbated the effects of symbolic racism and modern sexism on support for Trump.

  • Chapter 7 - American Editions
  • from Part I - Text
  • Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin
  • Book: Shakespeare in Print
  • Published online: 23 April 2021
  • Print publication: 13 May 2021, pp 182-208
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    Tracks the history of Shakespeare publishing in the US in the period running through to the end of the nineteenth century. Most of the earliest editions were derivative and it is noted that genuinely new advances in editorial scholarship were hampered by the lack of availability of primary texts in America in the earliest decades of Shakespeare publishing there. As access to early editions improved, a distinctively American strand of Shakespeare editing emerged. The careers of notable American editors are detailed, with a particular focus on Henry Norman Hudson, William J. Rolfe, Richard Grant White and Horace Howard Furness. Furness's inauguration of a variorum series, continued by his son, and later taken up by the Modern Language Association, is registered as being of signal importance. The pioneering work of Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke is also discussed. By the early twentieth century a significant transfer of early Shakespeare editions from UK collections to US research libraries meant that America was finally in a position to lead the way in terms of Shakespeare editorial scholarship.

  • Chapter 4 - The Tonson Era 2
  • from Part I - Text
  • Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin
  • Book: Shakespeare in Print
  • Published online: 23 April 2021
  • Print publication: 13 May 2021, pp 110-132
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    This chapter charts the second phase of the Tonson Shakespeare editions, examining texts produced from the mid eighteenth century onwards. The editorial work of Samuel Johnson is explored, with particular attention being paid to his registering of the principle that those texts published closest to an author's own time have a greater authority than later editions. The editorial work of those who inherited Johnson's edition – George Steevens and Isaac Reed – is examined. Edward Capell and Edmond Malone are presented as exemplary figures, whose work anticipated much editorial practice in the modern era, though it is noted that the logistical complexity of Capell's edition (and his obscure prose style) meant that his achievements were not fully appreciated until a later period. Malone's edition is seen as offering a kind of capstone to the editorial achievements of the eighteenth century and setting compass points for Shakespeare editing in the nineteenth century and beyond.

  • Chapter 2 - Collecting Shakespeare
  • from Part I - Text
  • Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin
  • Book: Shakespeare in Print
  • Published online: 23 April 2021
  • Print publication: 13 May 2021, pp 43-82
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    Begins by examining the career of the publisher Thomas Pavier in order to provide context for a puzzling collection of texts that he issued in 1619. The collection would seem to be the first attempt to offer the public a 'selected works' of Shakespeare, though, in fact, some of the plays included have only a tenuous connection to the playwright. The logistics of the project are considered, as well as the various arguments for why it appears to have been undertaken in a rather clandestine fashion. The chapter then moves on to consider the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, the 'First Folio', published in 1623. The volume is viewed within the context of the overarching career of Edward Blount, its primary investor. The progression of the volume through the printshop of William and Isaac Jaggard is tracked, drawing on the seminal work of Charlton Hinman, who made extensive use of the collection of First Folios established by Emily and Henry Clay Folger. The subsequent set of folio editions issued between 1632 and 1700 is also discussed.

  • Chapter 5 - Copyright Disputes
  • from Part I - Text
  • Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin
  • Book: Shakespeare in Print
  • Published online: 23 April 2021
  • Print publication: 13 May 2021, pp 133-156
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    The domination of the Shakespeare publishing field by the Tonson cartel came under challenge from various quarters over the course of the eighteenth century. This chapter charts the efforts of a number of English publishers to break the cartel's monopoly. The legal and regulatory background is traced and the various challenges across the century are registered, including initiatives launched by Thomas Johnson, Robert Walker, Thomas Cotes and John Bell. Attention is paid to the first English edition of Shakespeare published outside London: Thomas Hanmer's text, issued in conjunction with the university press at Oxford. The chapter concludes with a consideration of John Stockdale's editions which, in one configuration, offered the first single-volume text to have appeared since the end of the seventeenth century.

  • Chapter 9 - Nineteenth-Century Scholarly Editions
  • from Part I - Text
  • Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin
  • Book: Shakespeare in Print
  • Published online: 23 April 2021
  • Print publication: 13 May 2021, pp 235-257
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    The various strands of Shakespeare scholarly publishing are explored in this chapter. The emergence of techniques for producing increasingly accurate facsimiles of early modern editions led to the appearance of multiple facsimile editions of the First Folio and of the early quartos. But the period was also marked by significant controversy, most particularly in the instance of John Payne Collier's claim to have uncovered an edition of the 1632 second folio with annotations in the hand of a seventeenth-century theatre functionary. The eventual debunking of Collier's claims destroyed his reputation. Of key importance in the period was the production of the Cambridge Shakespeare, under the primary editorship of William Aldis Wright. This was the first edition produced by university scholars and it offered the definitive scholarly text of its era (in addition to being spun off, commercially, into the Globe Shakespeare). The chapter closes by considering the launch of the Arden Shakespeare, initially under the general editorship of Edward Dowden. The Arden set the model for academic editions produced by a range of editors under the stewardship of a general editor; it has survived through a number of iterations over the course of more than a century.

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