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Editors’ Note
Welcome to the tenth issue of Under Construction. In this issue we have yet another fascinating range of
articles to share with you, all original work produced by our postgraduates at Keele University.
‘False Light’ by Haider Jinhai utilises the tort of false light in the American jurisdiction as a
framework to understand the tort of false privacy in English law. In "Another Way: 'Classical Turntablism'
and a Concerto for Turntables" by Philip Hateley we see an exploration of one of the many compositional
approaches of Gabriel Prokofiev, making reference to the Concerto for Turntables No.1, as a case study.
In Daisy Cowley’s 'Still as Strange: The Detection of Self in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde',
matters of late Victorian social class are considered alongside self-detection and personal reflexivity.
Genre theory and the 'notion of the obscure' are brought to the fore in an article that simultaneously
considers Robert Louis Stevenson's novel as a paradigm of fin de siècle gothic literature and a generically
astute Detective novel. In 'Gender Essentialism: Personal Identity or Social Existence?', a range of
philosophical arguments and gender theories are utilised when considering the construction of personal
identity; questioning whether gender itself remains an essential component to our contemporary
existence.
Chloe Dawson’s ‘Flappers in Vogue’ explores the relationship between the flapper subculture of
the 1920’s and the consumer culture presented in women’s lifestyle magazines such as Vogue. By
considering how the liberated and rebellious persona of the flapper is, potentially, subverted when
examined through the lens of capitalist consumerism, Dawson’s article, which draws on the work of a
number of established theorists, offers an interesting perspective on the construction of the flapper
identity, and proposes a reconsideration of the way in which we consider the image of the liberated and
rebellious flapper, as well as a critique of postfeminism’s relationship to consumer culture.
In ‘Emily Dickinson’s Heaven on Earth’ Dawid Kedra has chosen the famously reclusive poet Emily
Dickinson as the subject of her paper. In it she considers how Dickinson utilises her poetic body to assert
control over her physical space and self, imagining a poetic body free from the patriarchal and religious
limitations imposed by the expectations of Victorian society. As such, Kedra argues, Dickinson’s poetic
body becomes a window into her own ‘heaven on earth’. Finally, Martin Goodhead’s ‘Acid politics and the
Working-Class’ engages Herbert Marcuse, Mark Fisher and post-60s ideas of alternative-labour to propose
how estate-literature depicting margin al communities can help us rethink political pessimism.
The Editorial Board for Under Construction @Keele
Rosa Morahan• Amy Blaney• Philip Hateley • Aysha Mazhar
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