Arpf

No. 9 Spring 2006

Editor Nickianne Moody

Two Pirates (on the) Account: The Journals of William Dampier and George Shelvocke
Elissa De Falco

Transatlantic Sketches: Depictions of the Sea Crossings by Dickens and James
Joanne Knowles

Practically Unsinkable – The Boyage of the R. M. S. Titanic throughout Twentieth Century Film
Jan Tilman Schwab

How Did This Come To Be In Stewardess Scheheraxade’s Sea-Chest of ‘Memories’? Exploring the Exceptionalised and Auratic Sea Through Inter-War Seawoman’s Oral Testimonies
Joe Stanley

1805 and All That: Defining the Naval War Film
Jonathan Rayner

Obedience, Authority and Strategies of Resistance in the Cinematic Bounty
Graham Benton

Sailing to the edge of the World
Eve Smith

Speech Patterns: Pincher Martin and Open Water Consume Us
Nick Parker

“Not All Treasure is Silver and Gold Mate”: The Enduring Popularity of the Pirate Narratuves
Annie Gosling

No. 8 Winter 2004

Editor Nickianne Moody

High Anxiety: Feminism, Chicklit And Women In The Noughties

Shop Boys and Girls!: Interpellating Readers as Consumers in Chicklit and Ladlit

‘Kiss My Tiara’ : Chicklit and Female Empowerment

Commitment Phobia and Emotional Fuckwittage: Postmillenial Constructions of Male “Other” in Chicklit novels

Material Girls: Location and Economics in Chicklit Fiction, Or, How Singletons Finance Their Jimmy Choo Collections

Bridget Jones’s Little Red Dress: Chicklit, Mass-Market Popular Romance & Feminism

Empathy and Irony In The Soundtrack to Chicklit

Tart Noir: Chicklit with Criminal Balls?

No. 7 Summer 2004

Editor Michelle Bernard

Victorian Horror Narratives: Troping Improper Femininity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret

The Horror of Existence: Spectres and Potentially in the Writing of Henry James

M.R. James’s Gothic Revival

‘Read it in the Spirit of Breaking the Rules’: African-American and Afro-Caribbean Wonen’s Horror as Contemporary Cultural Critique

All Dark Inside: Zombies and Detectives

Readers as Cyborgs: Constructing Reading Experiences in Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter.

Family Butcher

Nightmarried
Silence Violence

Another Girl Another Planet: A Reading of Ripley as Cyborgian Trickster

Rape and the Vampire: From Myth to Porn

“This is where you get off”: The Problem of Ambivalence in Early Episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

No. 6 Spring 2000

No. 6 Spring 2000
Parenthood

Gothic Families: Criminal Parenting in the Work of Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine.

The Family’s Value: The Parent and Child in Point Horror.

Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romance.

‘So calm, so pure, so beautiful in death …’ The Representation of Maternal Death in Nineteenth Century Literature.

The Isolated Teenager Convention in Point Horror.

‘Only a story’? It’s more than that, …’: Race, Eugenics and Birth Control in Popular Romance between the Wars.

Popular Culture, the Media and the Literary Canon: The case of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

No. 5 Winter 1999

Editorial: Empirical or Empiricist?
Andy Ruddock
The ‘common sense’ of Cultural Studies: Qualitative Audience Research and the Role of Theory in(-) determining method
Matthew Hills

Methodology as Lived Experience: Rhizomatic Ethnography in Hawai’i
Fay Yokomizo Akindes

In Search of the Radio Audience
Sara O’Sullivan

Reappraising Ethnography in South African Television Reception Studies
Dorothy Roome

‘Reality is a Dangerous Concept’: Accounts of Appreciation Amongst an Online Fan Community
Una McCormack

No. 4 Summer 1999

No. 4 Summer 1999
Editorial: Adventures, Mysteries and Romance
Deborah Philips
David Storey’s and Lindsay Anderson’s This Sporting Life: Reflections on the Aetheticization of the Sporting Body
Alan Tomlinson

From ‘Motionless Bodies’ to Acting Moral
Subjects: Tom Brown, a Transformative Narrative for the Production of Manliness
Garry Whannel

What a Man’s Gotta Do: Empirical Masculinity in H. Rider Haggard’s Victorian Africa
Liz Hedgecock

A New Man Is Born? The New Hero in Action Adventure and Wilbur Smith’s The Seventh Scroll
Isabel Santaulária

Anarchic Spaces in Sword and Sorcery Fiction
Maureen Moran

‘Dangerous Undesirables’: Chesterton, Wallace, Conrad and the 1905 Aliens Act
Mary Hammond

Interview with Teresa Benison
Rose Atfield

Distinction and Integration: Bourdieu and Popular Fiction
George Paizis

No. 3 Winter 1998

Editor Nickianne Moody

Emotions, Memories and Romance Readers: A Case Study of Laila Hietamies and her Fans
Maria Linko

Towards a Better Soundscape
Miguel Mera

Believing the Lie: Meme Theory and the Conspiracy Virus in the X-Files
Lynn Messina & Eleanor O’Rangers

Symbolic Geographies in Feminine Romance: Why Manderly Has to Burn
Susan Purdie

Love Bites: Contemporary Women’s Horror Writing
Gina Wisker

The Women Behind the Mask: Unveiling Female Power in Late Victorian and Early Twentieth Century Crime Fiction
Chris Willis

No. 2 Summer 1998

Editor Nicola King

Don Juan the Dyke: Perversity and/or Pleasure
Allegra Madgwick

Agents of the State?: Violent Women in Popular Culture
Rosie White

States of Emergency: Love, Fiction and History in André Brink’s States of Emergency
Amir Nojoumian

Metonymic Traces of Narrative’s Desire in Post-Catastrophic Fiction
Mick Burton

Un)Popular Postmodernism: Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World
John McLeod

The Seductions of Travel: Problematics and Possibilities in Two Post-Colonial Women’s Texts
Cath Stowers

Active Netizens: Television, Realism and the ER Website
Andy Ruddock

Books and the Bookseller