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Contents Editorial Violence 8 Child-perpetrated homicides in early modern England and Wales Abby Johns 16 Rage against the machine: The revenger in contemporary Hollywood cinema and the State’s monopoly on violence Rowan Guyver Identity 28 If a story is a seed Rebecca Savory Fuller 36 Surfacing: Cornish Women rising from the depths Joan Passey 46 Towards a phenomenology of adjustment for international student sojourners Simon Bishop 56 The lost voices of Basque evacuees Kelsey Hibbitt 58 Scratching the surface of loss and abandonment Lydia Halcrow Performance & Ritual 66 Living with the underworld: Perceptions of geology in Neolithic Britain Katy Whitaker & Susan Greaney 76 Cole collection Verity Burke 78 Reading between the lines: exploring intermedial collaboration in Portraits of anxiety as household objects Peter Relph & Katie Hale 80 Shakespeare’s repeated cues: Are we missing something? Lizzy Hughes Endnotes Calendar & Notifications Editorial board General editors Gareth Mills | English University of Reading Tabitha Stanmore | History University of Bristol subject (strand) editors Anna Varadi | Film and TV University of Reading Liz Barnes | History University of Reading Charlotte Walmsey | Modern languages University of Cardiff Marta Balzi | Classics University of Bristol Fionn O’Donovan | Philosophy University of Southampton Xander Ryan | English University of Reading Leonardo Bison | Archaeology University of Bristol creative content editors Emma Crowley | Creative features University of Bristol Kate Massey-Chase | Media and performance University of Exeter loGistics Sophie Payne | Submissions manager University of Reading Gemma O’Neill | Distribution manager University of Bristol desiGners Sigrid Dalland University of Reading Emmeline Hewstone University of Reading contribute to Question The second issue of Question will launch in We will be in touch in the new year. If you late spring/early summer 2018. would like to respond to any of the content you see here, we actively encourage dialogue We invite speculative submissions for Issue 2. between issues. If you would like to submit an academic article or creative piece, please send a 250-word Please send your feedback, thoughts and abstract, along with your name, the subject replies to QuestionSubmission@gmail.com strand you are submitting under, and your with the subject heading ‘Right to Reply’. university affiliation to QuestionSubmissions@gmail.com. Welcome to the very first issue of Question. During the more tortuous moments in the process of creating an academic journal written for non-specialists, it is often tempting to wonder who one is actually creating the journal for. In our day-to-day lives, we often seem to come across a modern Rubicon that represents a divisive paradigm: ideas and writing with intellectual integrity are inaccessible, obtuse or even elitist, and popular forms of writing are dumbed-down, shallow or purely entertaining. But does this have to be the case, and what is the social cost of this gulf in the age of clickbait, a partisan press and unverified viral news stories? This journal is partly an attempt to challenge this perception. The South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership is a remarkable network in that, despite the huge breadth of disciplines in its cohorts of young researchers, there is remarkable consistency in the overall work currently being undertaken. There is a general commitment to academic accountability and excellence; and all projects are only funded after assessment by a board of their impact on society outside of the university. In this sense, Question is a manifestation of a nascent aim to share the fruits of institutional thinking beyond academic borders. We seek to lend the support of the academy to general readers, who may be fatigued from navigating the contemporary minefield of alternative facts. When Question was still the brainchild of a few PhD students in the SWW DTP, an early realisation was that at the roundtable of interdisciplinarity, we were all non-experts. We were all unlikely to have enough knowledge of each other’s fields to fully appreciate the research being done. With this in mind, all the essays and creative writing inside Question have been written with the principle of ‘no prior knowledge’ in mind, with all care taken to ensure that full and meaningful understanding is conveyed within the limits of the piece itself. To further foster a sense of true, internally communicative interdisciplinarity we have arranged the essays, creative writing, and photography into dialogic sections which, we hope, prompt consideration of their similarities and differences. In this issue, concerned with that found ‘beneath the surface’, we have arranged these into ‘Violence’, ‘Identity’, and ‘Performance and Ritual’. We very much hope you enjoy Question, and that you are intrigued, challenged, provoked and amused. Future issues will feature a mix of academic and non-academic responses to the essays, art and writing in this debut – something we hope you, the reader, will consider doing after perusing these pages. Gareth Mills & Tabitha Stanmore 76 question beneath the surface Tales of a zoologist: the Cole Museum and Library Verity Burke Professor Francis J. Cole (1872–1959), the first Professor of Zoology at the University of Reading (then known as University College, Reading), set up the Cole Museum of Zoology and the Cole Library of Early Medicine and Zoology. Consisting of ‘about eight thousand volumes dealing with early Medicine and Zoology, from the fifteenth century to the present day’ and collected ‘from his schooldays onwards to the end of his long life of nearly eighty-seven years,’ Cole’s library is a bildungsroman in books, an evolving monument to his understanding of science and narrative.1 Cole’s wider interests in anatomy and his historical and intellectual influences are particularly evident in the library contents. His preference for anatomy can be seen in the number of works pertaining to eighteenth-century surgeons John and William Hunter, and comparative anatomist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.2 Indeed Cole was a ‘great admirer of John Hunter’, on whose museum he ‘planned his own Museum at the University of Reading’, further connecting the specimens in Cole’s library and museum collections; his library holds nearly forty entries of references to Hunter and his work, as well as editions of Hunter’s own writings.3 Alongside the historical literature of anatomy, the catalogue reveals influences that were more contemporary to Cole. The library contains numerous volumes both by and relating to Charles Darwin including a first edition of Origin of Species (1859). As well as valuing the scientific theories they convey, Cole appears to have recognized them as being of literary and bibliographic importance, as a case study of the first edition of Origin of Species he included in his playful self-written obituary suggests.4 The material history of individual books in Cole’s library reveals the influence of other nineteenth-century figures from the scientific and medical worlds. Cole’s copies of French anatomist Guichard Joseph Duverney’s Tractatus de organo auditus (Nuremberg, 1684) and Scottish medical educa- tor Alexander Monro’s A Treatise on Comparative Anatomy (Edinburgh, 1783) belonged to renowned nineteenth-century surgeon Sir Charles Bell.5 The latter book contains Bell’s bookplate, as well as his signature and manuscript corrections, as though Cole was curious to diagnose what Bell thought of the text. J. H. Linck’s De stellis marinis (Leipzig, 1733) is inscribed with geologist tales of a zoologist verity burke performance & ritual William Buckland’s signature, while a copy of De generatione animalium (Amsterdam, 1651), by one of Cole’s favoured historical anatomists, William Harvey, bears the signature of Thomas Henry Huxley, ‘Darwin’s bulldog’. The physical and morphological aspects, with their tangible connection to science history, seem to have been crucial for Cole; a materialized tale that reveals more than dissection or reading alone. This ‘artefactisation’ of science, manifest in the library and the museum, in Cole’s collections practice, and in his historicizing mindset, has much to tell us about the story of science, and the importance of literature and history in the pursuit of materialist knowledge. 77 endnotes 99 Cole collection, pp. 76–77 Verity Burke 1 Eales, Nellie B., ‘Introduction’ in The Cole Library of Early Medicine and Zoology, Catalogue of Books and 2 Overmier, Judith, ‘Book Reviews’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXV (1970), Pamphlets 1472฀1800 (Part 1), (Reading: The Alden Press for the Library University of Reading, 1969), p. vii. 358–359 (p. 358). 3 Anon, ‘The Cole Library of Zoology and Early Medicine, University of Reading’, Nature, 188 (1960), 1148฀1151 (p. 1150). 4 Cole, F. J., ‘Obiter Dicta Bibliographica’ in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XIII (1958), 2–9. 5 Eales, Nellie B., ‘On the Provenance of Some Early Medical and Biological Books,’ Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXIV (1969), 183–192 (p. 184). Shakespeare’s repeated cues: Are we missing something?, pp. 80–88 Lizzy Hughes 1 2 Richard Flatter, Shakespeare฀s Producing Hand (London: Heinemann, 1948) Patrick Tucker, Secrets of Acting Shakespeare (London and New York: Routledge, 2002) 3 Don Weingust, Acting From Shakespeare฀s First Folio (USA: Routledge, 2006) 4 Neil Freeman and Paul Sugarman, The Applause First Folio of Shakespeare Comedies, Histories & Tragedies in 5 Tiffany Stern, Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) Modern Type (Canada: Applause, 2001) 6 Stern, Rehearsal, p. 61 7 The History of Orlando Furioso 1594, (The Malone Society Reprints, 1907), https://archive.org/details/orlandofurios00ario 8 Stern, Rehearsal, p. 62 9 Stern, Rehearsal, p. 77 10 Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern, Shakespeare In Parts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 308 11 ‘Money’ is a false cue, an extra trick possibly to trip up the actor playing Anthonio and give the actor playing Shylock even greater power in their exchange 12 Palfrey and Stern, Parts, p. 200