Access the article in the University of Chester’s Student News Magazine here: https://emailassets.chester.ac.uk/Student%20News%20Spring%202019_WEB.pdf
A Hidden Alternative World of Music
“Curiouser and Curiouser”: Part X
“We’re All Mad Here” ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Curiouser and Curiouser”: Part IX
“Recalled to life” ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Curiouser and Curiouser”: Part VIII
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
“Curiouser and Curiouser”: Part VII
Part VII: The Long Nineteenth Century
As my chosen research covers texts released at various points throughout the Nineteenth Century, I thought creating a timeline may assist with recognising significant events that occurred alongside the publication of these texts.
Are Live Music Venues in Decline?
Image: Top Right: White Mammoth at The Saddle Inn, Chester – Top Left: Epica at The O2 Ritz, Manchester – Bottom Right: The Rasmus at Academy 2, Manchester – Bottom Left: Nights Tribunal at The Live Rooms, Chester.
“Curiouser and Curiouser”: Part VI
Part VI: Language and Time
As my research is specialising in the presence of male hysteria in Nineteenth-Century literature, I need to conduct my research using language of the period to get the results I need.
“Curiouser and Curiouser”: Part V
Part V: More ideas
With the basic ideas for my dissertation in place and background reading well underway, I seek the opinions of my lecturers before taking my research further.
“Curiouser and Curiouser”: Part III
“[T]he invention of madness as a disease is in fact nothing less than a peculiar disease of our civilization.” (David Cooper’s Introduction to Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault)
Wuthering Heights & Me
2018 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Emily Brontë and this publication was produced by the Brontë Society as part of their celebrations for the year. It contains responses to Emily’s only novel, Wuthering Heights, by some of her many fans – including myself.
Below is the article I wrote in early 2018 which was published in September 2018.
Holly Royle 