Dr Tamsin Spargo is now an independent writer and cultural historian, based in Cornwall, U.K.. She was Reader in Cultural History and Director of the School of Media, Critical and Creative Arts at Liverpool John Moores University and Visiting Professor in English at the University of Malaya. Her books include Wanted Man: The forgotten story of an American Outlaw (Bloomsbury, 2004), Reading the Past: Literature and History (Palgrave, 2000), Foucault and Queer Theory (1999), John Bunyan (2016), and The Writing of John Bunyan (1994). Recent, and current, projects include writing and directing for theatre company Perthi Kov, writing micro dramas using Cornish dialect and language, poetry, and ongoing academic work on Cornish history and culture, sexuality, gender politics, and post-secular thinking. She is also involved in community work as a Director of Redruth Revival CIC and as a member of the Grants Committee of Cornwall Community Foundation and was an Independent Town Councillor for Redruth.. Address: Redmonds Building
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An edited anthology of stimulating work on the past from the changing disciplines of literature a... more An edited anthology of stimulating work on the past from the changing disciplines of literature and history.
Based on original archival research, Wanted Man, tells the forgotten story of one of the USA's f... more Based on original archival research, Wanted Man, tells the forgotten story of one of the USA's first celebrity criminals: train robber, prison protester, hunger striker and poet, Oliver Curtis Perry.
The first full-length post-structuralist study of the career and texts of the seventeenth-centur... more The first full-length post-structuralist study of the career and texts of the seventeenth-century nonconformist writer whose works were circulated within diverse cultures from their original context to the contemporary.
Articles by Botting and Spargo, Catherine Belsey, Dymphna Callaghan, Peter Benson, Jonathan Keane... more Articles by Botting and Spargo, Catherine Belsey, Dymphna Callaghan, Peter Benson, Jonathan Keane, Nick Land.
Introduction - traces of authority. The name(s) of the author: John Bunyan - the authorized versi... more Introduction - traces of authority. The name(s) of the author: John Bunyan - the authorized version Bunyans abounding - from chief of sinners Nu Hony in a B the fame of the author?. "I being taken from you in presence" - "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners" and claims to authority: presence restored? rereading the subject of "Grace Abounding" authority on trial. Authority, exclusion and resistance - from interdiction to contra-dictions: interdiction contradictions. The limits of authority - Bunyan's other readers: framing the author Bunyan's progress prefaces to reading but, for, her, she, did, doe, all, his, way, you, may, say, nay. Conclusion - Bunyan @ large.
The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 1994
... and the phenom-enology of masculinity'; Miriam Cooke, 'Naguib Mahfouz, men,... more ... and the phenom-enology of masculinity'; Miriam Cooke, 'Naguib Mahfouz, men, and the Egyptian underworld'; David Radavich, 'Man among men ... M. Butterflvand Graham Greene's The Quiet American"'; David Bergman, 'JR Ackerley and the ideal friend'; Richard Dellamora, 'EM ...
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Emperor Kennedy Legend: A New Anthropological... more Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Emperor Kennedy Legend: A New Anthropological Debate L. Kolakowski The Watercress Seller C. Steedman from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison M. Foucault Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin R. Darnton Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison S. Willis At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation S. Greenblatt Facing History, or the Anxiety of Reading. Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' According to Greenblatt and Lyotard J. Pieters Reading Cultural History C. Belsey Theses on the Philosophy of History W. Benjamin Camus' The Plague, or a Monument to Witnessing? S. Felman Why Bother with the Past? Engaging with Some Issues Raised by the 'End of History as we Have Known it' K. Jenkins from The Writing of History M. de Certeau Summaries and Notes Glossary Suggestions for Further Reading Index
This essay was presented as the opening talk of the VI International History Conference under the... more This essay was presented as the opening talk of the VI International History Conference under the theme “History and the challenges of the 21st century: politics, feminisms and gender performances” that took place at the Federal University of Goiás, Jataí, in 2018. The author suggest the enduring value of analysing discursive construction and the competing knowledges and narratives that condition our lived experience, but also that we must, as historians of, and in, the present, be aware that we are occupying socially and temporally contingent positions.
Foucault's theories on power, crime and sexuality have enourmously influenced the postmodern ... more Foucault's theories on power, crime and sexuality have enourmously influenced the postmodern debates within postfeminism, cultural studies, sociology, and history.
An edited anthology of stimulating work on the past from the changing disciplines of literature a... more An edited anthology of stimulating work on the past from the changing disciplines of literature and history.
Based on original archival research, Wanted Man, tells the forgotten story of one of the USA's f... more Based on original archival research, Wanted Man, tells the forgotten story of one of the USA's first celebrity criminals: train robber, prison protester, hunger striker and poet, Oliver Curtis Perry.
The first full-length post-structuralist study of the career and texts of the seventeenth-centur... more The first full-length post-structuralist study of the career and texts of the seventeenth-century nonconformist writer whose works were circulated within diverse cultures from their original context to the contemporary.
Articles by Botting and Spargo, Catherine Belsey, Dymphna Callaghan, Peter Benson, Jonathan Keane... more Articles by Botting and Spargo, Catherine Belsey, Dymphna Callaghan, Peter Benson, Jonathan Keane, Nick Land.
Introduction - traces of authority. The name(s) of the author: John Bunyan - the authorized versi... more Introduction - traces of authority. The name(s) of the author: John Bunyan - the authorized version Bunyans abounding - from chief of sinners Nu Hony in a B the fame of the author?. "I being taken from you in presence" - "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners" and claims to authority: presence restored? rereading the subject of "Grace Abounding" authority on trial. Authority, exclusion and resistance - from interdiction to contra-dictions: interdiction contradictions. The limits of authority - Bunyan's other readers: framing the author Bunyan's progress prefaces to reading but, for, her, she, did, doe, all, his, way, you, may, say, nay. Conclusion - Bunyan @ large.
The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 1994
... and the phenom-enology of masculinity'; Miriam Cooke, 'Naguib Mahfouz, men,... more ... and the phenom-enology of masculinity'; Miriam Cooke, 'Naguib Mahfouz, men, and the Egyptian underworld'; David Radavich, 'Man among men ... M. Butterflvand Graham Greene's The Quiet American"'; David Bergman, 'JR Ackerley and the ideal friend'; Richard Dellamora, 'EM ...
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Emperor Kennedy Legend: A New Anthropological... more Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Emperor Kennedy Legend: A New Anthropological Debate L. Kolakowski The Watercress Seller C. Steedman from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison M. Foucault Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin R. Darnton Eruptions of Funk: Historicizing Toni Morrison S. Willis At the Table of the Great: More's Self-Fashioning and Self-Cancellation S. Greenblatt Facing History, or the Anxiety of Reading. Holbein's 'The Ambassadors' According to Greenblatt and Lyotard J. Pieters Reading Cultural History C. Belsey Theses on the Philosophy of History W. Benjamin Camus' The Plague, or a Monument to Witnessing? S. Felman Why Bother with the Past? Engaging with Some Issues Raised by the 'End of History as we Have Known it' K. Jenkins from The Writing of History M. de Certeau Summaries and Notes Glossary Suggestions for Further Reading Index
This essay was presented as the opening talk of the VI International History Conference under the... more This essay was presented as the opening talk of the VI International History Conference under the theme “History and the challenges of the 21st century: politics, feminisms and gender performances” that took place at the Federal University of Goiás, Jataí, in 2018. The author suggest the enduring value of analysing discursive construction and the competing knowledges and narratives that condition our lived experience, but also that we must, as historians of, and in, the present, be aware that we are occupying socially and temporally contingent positions.
Foucault's theories on power, crime and sexuality have enourmously influenced the postmodern ... more Foucault's theories on power, crime and sexuality have enourmously influenced the postmodern debates within postfeminism, cultural studies, sociology, and history.
ONE SEPTEMBER NIGHT in 1891 the Wild West went east. A masked man boarded the American Express Sp... more ONE SEPTEMBER NIGHT in 1891 the Wild West went east. A masked man boarded the American Express Special train as it sped through New York State and single-handedly stole a fortune. His name was Oliver Curtis Perry, and he instantly became the country's most wanted ...
This chapter offers a chronological account of varying historical and historicist approaches to t... more This chapter offers a chronological account of varying historical and historicist approaches to the life and writings of John Bunyan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. The theoretical assumptions of major scholars in the field are highlighted, from a Whig such as Macaulay in the nineteenth century to a Marxist such as Christopher Hill in the twentieth, to more recent work by contemporary historians such as Richard L. Greaves and N. H. Keeble. It explores changing conceptions of the relationship between text and context, and past, present, and future, as they have informed research, analysis, historiography, and interpretation within the developing disciplines of History and of English Literature. This exploration is coupled with a consideration of the often unacknowledged relationship between teleological conceptions of history and the practice of historical research and historiography.
A manual I wrote for Perthi Kov Theatre Walks Company on how to research the lives of people buri... more A manual I wrote for Perthi Kov Theatre Walks Company on how to research the lives of people buried in cemeteries and create a theatrical event to celebrate their lives. Based on our experience in creating ‘Until the Day Break’ in St Euny, Redruth, Cornwall, for which I was one of a small team of writers, directors and researchers.
An exploration of two case studies of the impact of different restaurants on community identity, ... more An exploration of two case studies of the impact of different restaurants on community identity, from colonial exploitation of Cornish food traditions in ‘Padstein’ to the local provision at Tebay. This is a paper in its original draft form.
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