Exploring how early novels experimented with stories-within-stories, Katie Charles shows how such interpolated tales confronted readers with an array of interpretive challenges. Considering the habitual nature of these interruptions by seemingly throwaway extra plots, she investigates why they persistently unnerve readers with the sense that they have “lost the plot.” Taking the bold critical step of recognizing interpolated tales as a category worthy of analysis, she raises new and exciting questions around how these tales should be read and by what measure they might be said to “count.” The peculiar literary history reconstructed here offers a key for assessing how various texts and readers think about who gets to speak and be heard, choices of particular import in the context of gender difference and its historical relation to public speech. Lost Plots argues that attending to this forgotten body of evidence opens up a new account of gendered speech and power.

As part of the major premise of the Declaration’s syllogism and of a general theory of rightful government, it is unlikely that the main ideas in the Declaration’s second paragraph exist as separate, free-floating nuggets of indeterminate meaning. My task in this essay is to reconstruct the theory of rightful government contained in that paragraph in order to progress toward fixing meaning for those ideas – equality, rights, liberty, and others – that have been so important to the self-understanding and political aspirations of Americans from 1776 on.

Concerns about the role of prejudice and racial discrimination first expressed by Voltaire and Zola were often at the forefront of pre-DNA campaigns to correct wrongful convictions. Despite this, the American innocence movement frequently neglected the role of racism in wrongful convictions. It neglected links between lynching and frequent DNA exonerations, where white victims misidentified Black men. Racism was recognized in the wrongful convictions of the Exonerated (Central Park) Five but not in other similar wrongful convictions of Black teenagers. Trump mobilized anti-Black racism in his calls for the Five to be executed. The role of both anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism in the 1971 wrongful conviction of Donald Marshall Jr. for the murder of a Black teenager in Canada is examined. A 1989 public inquiry into this wrongful conviction did not ignore racism in the same way as similar American inquiries into wrongful convictions. Patterns of anti-Indigenous racism and the role of stereotypes in the wrongful conviction of Indigenous men in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States are identified. Finally, the place of anti-racism in the future evolution of innocence movements is discussed.

On the map of modern Hebrew literature, the American Hebrew center remains largely a terra incognita. The chapter considers this often-neglected center from a local perspective by examining the cultural and literary interactions of Hebrew writers in New York City with their non-Jewish environment. By expanding the scope of these interactions to include American literary Naturalism and modern Yiddish literature, I show how Hebrew writers in the United States engaged with and benefited from other literatures and cultures. The chapter focuses on the literary works of Simon Halkin and Abraham Zvi Halevy, particularly their representations of New York City. Halkin’s and Halevy’s oeuvres exemplify the various identity conflicts, ideological polemics, and linguistic possibilities that took place within the multicultural and multilingual space of Interbellum New York. Understanding their literary projects within a broader Jewish American context enriches our understanding of American Hebrew literature.

Abstract: This chapter considers how partial adjudication may convert regular judicial remedies into remedies for non-compliance. This can occur when an adjudicator, in a partial, preliminary or provisional ruling, anticipates its views on the merits, either expressly or implicitly, while deferring the issuing of remedies to subsequent stages of adjudication. By withholding remedies, the adjudicator permits compliance to be addressed during the subsequent stages of adjudication. International courts (ICs) may defer rulings on responsibility for injury, on the quantification of compensation, or on the merits of the dispute, while foreshadowing remedies likely to be issued in subsequent rulings. A survey of the jurisprudence shows that ICs have employed these techniques, providing parties with meaningful findings and deferring rulings to subsequent stages, while enjoining parties to settle the dispute based on these findings. More rarely, ICs issue partial or preliminary rulings with the express objective of permitting a remedies-avoiding change in conduct.

In general, curricula for language teacher education programmes follow some iteration of Schulman’s original framework (1986), which, at its most basic, distinguishes content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge. Other components such as technological knowledge (Mishra and Koehler 2006), wisdom of practice, and research (Farr and O’Keeffe 2019) have since been used to imbue and expanded Shulman’s original conceptualisation. In this chapter, we discuss how corpus-based approaches easily align with various curricular components in ways which ultimately enhance the pedagogic approaches utilised with practising and prospective language teachers. To do this, we draw on Farr and Leńko-Szymańska’s (2023) tripartite framework, which articulates the potential modes of corpus integration in teacher education programmes. These include: corpus literacy (CL), which focuses primarily on subject content and technological knowledge; corpus-based language pedagogy (CBLP), which focuses primarily on pedagogical content knowledge; and corpus-based reflective practice (CBRP), which focuses primarily on pedagogical content knowledge, wisdom of practice and research.

On 9 September 1976, Mao passed away, marking the end of the radical socialist experiment and the beginning of marketized reforms. In the face of growing social grievances sparked by marketized reforms, in the early 2000s the Hu Jintao administration (2002–2012) changed gear toward social protection. This chapter outlines the regime of general labour precarity in the post-Mao era: socialist surplus appropriation has been overhauled and given way to exploitation; the social exclusion system has been softened and recalibrated; despite efforts of decommodification, the recommodification of healthcare, education, and housing has created the ‘three new great mountains’ over Chinese people.

The question of how politics and ethics connect, if at all, in our societies is crucial, especially given today’s socio-economic and geopolitical challenges. Commentators have sought answers in Kant’s texts: the relation between the Categorical Imperative (CI) as the fundamental principle of ethics, and the Universal Principle of Right (UPR) as the fundamental principle of politico-legal norms, has been variously interpreted as one of simple dependence, simple independence, or complex dependence. Recent interpretations increasingly agree that Kant was not a simple independentist. However, questions persist about the philosophical significance of Kant’s account, specifically whether certain aspects of his thought inconsistently commit him to simple independentism. One aim of this chapter is to illustrate this critical strategy starting from a specific interpretation of the UPR. It is argued that, although robust, this interpretation is not the most accurate. While this strategy opens new avenues for further objections to Kant, the chapter concludes that the complex dependentist reading is philosophically the most convincing to date.

This chapter traces the long history of critical arguments that frame Henry Fielding’s interpolated tales as feminized “freckles” and “blemishes” that mar his otherwise masculine plots. Taking the much-squabbled about “History of Leonora” from Joseph Andrews (1742) as a case study, I examine the interpretive dilemmas posed by a tale that purports not only to speak across the gender binary but across an ossified, almost caricatured gender binary. My close reading of “The History of Leonora” contends with its intertextuality, likely joint authorship with Sarah Fielding, and structuring around negative space. Based on this body of evidence, I argue that a singularly nuanced female subjectivity emerges from the clash of tale-narrator, heroine, and spiteful town gossips, all of them women whose talking about women enables a critique of the social possibilities open to them – one that shimmies free space for alternatives to reflexively binary thinking.