English Literature Publications
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Publications by Lancaster University English Literature Staff, 2000-present
The Department's literary research positions literature in specific historical, spatial, and cultural contexts. We have strengths in the Renaissance, Romanticism and the Gothic, Victorian Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, and Contemporary Writing. Areas of distinctive research which cross period boundaries include locating literature in relation to place, literature and spiritual identities, and literature and gender.
The Early Modern group has gained world-wide recognition for its Shakespeare Programme and the more recent Quaker Project, and through the Ruskin Centre and the Wordsworth Centre Lancaster continues to strengthen its reputation in the long nineteenth century. The Modern and Contemporary Writing group is distinguished by its innovative engagement with theory – with notable contributions to feminist theory, complemented by work on post-war masculinity. There is an equally strong focus on Modernism and the 1930s and on modern and contemporary prose narrative. Strong research interests in film, performance, and popular genres bring together staff with expertise in literature across a range of periods and cultural backgrounds.
Go to our Staff Pages for further information on individual members of staff.
Dr Robert Appelbaum
'John Smith's Fish: Mapping Natural Resources, Cultural Habits, and Food,' Texts of Imagination and Empire, Folger Institute, www.folger.edu/institute/jamestown/c_appelbaum.htm
'Belch's Hiccup: Disturbances of the Appetite in Twelfth Night,' Textus 13 (2000), 231-62.
'Aguecheek's Beef,' Textual Practice 14.2 (2000), 327-41.
'Newe Bokes of Cookerie,' Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 1.1 (2001),128-43.
'War and Peace in The Lepanto of James VI and I,' Modern Philology 97.3 (2000), 333-65; reprint Reading Monarchs Writing, ed. Peter Herman (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2002).
Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
'Eve's and Adam's Apple: Horticulture, Taste, and the Flesh of the Forbidden Fruit in Paradise Lost,' Milton Quarterly 36.4 (2002), 221-39.
'Rhetoric and Epistemology in Early Printed Recipe Collections,' Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 3.2. (2003), 1-35.
'Hunger in Early Virginia: Indians and English Facing Off Over Excess, Want, and Need,' in Envisioning an English Empire, ed. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).
Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Invention of the North Atlantic World, ed. Robert Appelbaum and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).
'Comedy of Errors,' 'Timon of Athens,' 'Sonnets 71, 94, 147,' in A Student Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Joseph Rosenblum (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005).
'Genres utopiques en Angleterre, 1516-1640,' in Histoire transnationale des utopies litteraires et de l'utopisme, ed. Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson (Paris: Champion) in press.
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
"Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Mythography of Terror," Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History, 68.4 (2007), 461-91.
“New Worlds,” in Clio, 5000 words, forthcoming.
“Food,” in Ben Jonson in Context, ed. Julie Sanders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 3000 words, forthcoming.
“The Civility of Eating,” in Food and Morality, ed. Susan R. Friedland (Devon: Prospect Books, 2008), 29-38.
“Terrorism and the Novel, 1970-2001,” in Poetics Today 29.3 (2008), 387-436.
Dr Brian Baker
'The Geometry of the Space Age: J.G. Ballard's short fiction and science fiction of the 1960s', J. G. Ballard: Contemporary Critical Perspectives , ed. Jeanette Baxter (London and New York: Continuum, forthcoming 2008)
' Evolution, Literary History and Science Fiction', forthcoming in Essays and Studies 2008, ed. by Sharon Ruston.
'A Man of Wealth and Taste: The Strange Career of Hannibal Lecter,' in The Lure of the Dark Side--Satan and Western Demonology in Popular Culture , ed. Chris Partridge and Eric S. Christianson (London: Equinox, forthcoming 2007).
Iain Sinclair (Contemporary British Novelists series) (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007)
'Sinclair's poetry: from Lud Heat and Suicide Bridge to Saddling the Rabbit ', for City Visions: The Work of Iain Sinclair , ed. Jenny Bavidge and Robert Bond (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2007).
'Gothic Masculinities', in The Routledge Companion To Gothic , ed. by Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2007).
'Ray Bradbury', The Literary Encyclopaedia < www.litencyc.com >, December 2006
Masculinity in fiction and film: Representing Men in popular genres 1945-2000 (London and New York: Continuum, 2006)
'Constructing the Normative: Male Subjects and Others in the Dystopias of Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth', Extrapolation 46:4, Winter 2005, 439-452.
Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction , with John H. Cartwright (Santa Barbara CA and Oxford: ABC-Clio, 2005).
'Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 ', Blackwell's Companion to Science Fiction , ed. David Seed (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 489-499.
'Witness to the Ends of the World: colonialism, the scientific romance and Michael Moorcock's Nomad of the Time Streams trilogy', A Celebration of British Science Fiction/ Foundation 93 (34:1), ed. Andy Sawyer, Andrew M. Butler and Farah Mendelsohn (Spring 2005), pp. 40-48.
'Key Concepts in Film Studies', in Cinéma Divinité: Religion, Theology and the Bible in Film , ed. Eric S. Christianson, Peter Francis and William R. Telford (London: SCM, 2005), pp. 44-60.
'The Nelson Mandala', Vector: The Critical Journal of the BSFA , 236, July-August 2004, 16-19.
'Maps of the London Underground: Iain Sinclair and Michael Moorcock's Psychogeography of the City', Literary London , vol 1, number 1, March 2003. <http://www.literarylondon/ london-journal/march2003/baker.html>
'The Resurrection of Desire: J.G. Ballard's Crash as a Transgressive Text', in Foundation 80 (November 2000), pp.84-96.
'The Map of Apocalypse: Nuclear War And The Space Of Dystopia', in Histories of the Future: Studies in Fact, Fantasy and Science Fiction , ed. by Alan Sandison and Robert Dingley (London: Palgrave, 2000), pp.124-136
Professor Simon Bainbridge
'"Of war and taking towns': Byron's siege poems", in Romantic Wars: Studies in Culture and Conflict, 1793-1822, ed. Philip Shaw (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).
British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Visions of Conflict (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
'"Was it for this [...]": The Poetic Histories of Southey and Wordsworth', Romanticism on the Net, Issues 32-33 (November 2003-Feb 2004).
'The Historical Context', in Romanticism - An Oxford Guide, ed. Nicholas Roe (Oxford University Press, 2004).
'Napoleon and European Romanticism', in Companion to European Romanticism, ed. Michael Ferber (Blackwell: 2005).
'Theological Readings of Literature: Wordsworth and Coleridge', in Oxford Companion to Literature and Theology (Oxford University Press, 2005/6).
Romanticism: A Sourcebook (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Dr Arthur Bradley
The Messianic Now: Philosophy, Religion, Culture, ed. Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher (Routledge 2011).
The New Atheist Novel: Philosophy, Fiction and Polemic after 9/11 (co-authored with Andrew Tate) (London: Continuum, 2010).
The Politics to Come: Power, Secularity and the Messianic (eds) Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher (London: Continuum, 2010).
‘The Theocracy to Come: Islamism, Fundamentalism, Secularism’, in The Politics to Come: Power, Secularity and the Messianic (eds) Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher (London: Continuum, forthcoming, 2009).
‘The Messianic Now’, special double issue of The Journal of Cultural Research (eds) Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher (London: Taylor & Francis, forthcoming 2009).
‘On a Messianic Tone Recently Introduced in Philosophy’, in ‘The Messianic Now’, special double issue of The Journal of Cultural Research (eds) Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher (forthcoming, 2009).
‘The New Atheist Novel: Literature, Religion and Terror in Amis and McEwan’, The Yearbook of English Studies 2009, special issue on Literature and Religion (ed.) Andrew Tate (forthcoming, 2009).
‘Shelley Criticism from Deconstruction to the New Formalism’ in The Oxford Handbook of Shelley Studies (eds) Tony Howe and Michael O’Neill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2009).
‘The Impossibility of Reading: Bloom, de Man, Derrida’ in Reading, Writing and Harold Bloom (eds.) Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears (Manchester: MUP, forthcoming, 2009).
‘Bernard Stiegler: In the Image’, in A Visual Theory Reader (eds) Nigel Saint and Andy Stafford (Manchester: MUP, forthcoming, 2009).
‘Deconstructing Christianity: From the Hand of God to the Hand of Man’ in Sacred Worlds: Literature, Religion and the Imagination (eds) Mark Knight and Louise Lee (London: Continuum, forthcoming, 2009).
‘Bernard Stiegler’, in The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Literary Theory (ed.) Robert Eaglestone (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming, 2009)
Derrida’s Of Grammatology: A Philosophical Guide (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), pp. 166.
'Mystic Atheism: Julia Kristeva’s Negative Theology’, Theology and Sexuality, 14: 3 (2008), pp. 279-92.
‘The Deconstruction of Christianity: On Touching the Frontiers of Theory’ in Language System: After Prague Structuralisms (ed.) Louis Armand (Prague: Charles University Press, 2008), pp. 11-21.
‘No Future? Bernard Stiegler’s Politics of Memory’, in Mapping Liminalities: Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Texts (ed.) Lucy Kay et al (New York and Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 185-208.
Technicity (eds) Arthur Bradley and Louis Armand (Prague: Charles University Press, 2007), pp ix + 330.
‘Thinking Technicity’, in Louis Armand and Arthur Bradley (eds) Technicity (Prague: Charles University Press, 2007), pp.1-14.
‘Originary Technicity? Technology and Anthropology’, in Louis Armand and Arthur Bradley (eds) Technicity (Prague: Charles University Press, 2007), pp. 78-100.
‘Derrida’s god: A Genealogy of the Theological Turn’, Paragraph, 29: 3, (2006), pp. 21-42.
‘“Until death tramples it to fragments”: Shelley and Postmodern Theology’, in Religion and Romanticism from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens, (eds) Gavin Hopps and Jane Stabler (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2006), pp. 191-206.
‘Religion’, in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol 13 (ed.) Martin McQuillan (Oxford: OUP, 2005), pp. 159-74.
‘Deus ex Machina: Religion and Technology in Aristotle, Heidegger and Derrida’ Comparative Critical Studies, 2: 1 (2005), pp. 271-84.
‘The Letter Giveth: Derrida and Stiegler on Faith and Technics’, in Mind Factory (ed.) Louis Armand (Prague: Charles University Press, 2005), pp. 106-19.
‘Religion’, in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol 12 (ed.) Martin McQuillan (Oxford: OUP, 2004), pp. 143-65
Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. xiii + 244.
Romantic Biography (eds) Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. xvi + 226.
‘Romanticising Biography’, in Romantic Biography (eds) Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. x-xvi.
‘“Winging itself with Laughter”: Byron and Shelley after Deconstruction’, in Romantic Biography (eds) Arthur Bradley and Alan Rawes (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 152-67.
‘Religion’, in The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol 11 (ed.) Martin McQuillan (Oxford: OUP, 2003), pp. 139-62.
‘Save the Name: Christian Mysticism and Modern French Thought’, in Mysticisms East and West: Studies in Mysticism, (eds) Theodore Gabriel and Chris Partridge (Carlyle: Paternoster, 2003), pp. 255-77.
‘Shelley, Ireland and Romantic Orientalism’, in English Romanticism and the Celtic World (eds) Gerard Carruthers and Alan Rawes (Cambridge: CUP, 2003), pp.117-29.
‘Thinking the Outside: Foucault, Derrida and the Thought of Negative Theology’, Textual Practice, 16: 1 (2002), pp. 57-74.
‘Without Negative Theology: Deconstruction and the Politics of Negative Theology’, The Heythrop Journal, 42: 2 (2001) pp. 133-47.
‘Reactionary and Romantic: Joseph de Maistre and Percy Bysshe Shelley’, in Reinventing Christianity: Nineteenth Century Contexts (ed.) Linda Woodhead (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), pp. 139-48.
‘God sans Being: Derrida, Marion and “a paradoxical writing of the word without”’, Literature and Theology, 14: 3 (2000) pp. 299-312.
‘“The Earth an Altar, and the Heavens a Fane”: Joseph de Maistre’s Influence upon Shelley’s Laon and Cythna’, The Aligarh Critical Miscellany, 10: 1 (1997), pp. 152-67.
Dr Sally Bushell
Re-Reading The Excursion. Hampshire: Ashgate, 2002.
'Wordsworth’s Excursion: Narrative Memory and the "Minds of Men",' Blackwell’s Literature Compass 1 (2004): 1-13. http://www.literature-compass.com
'Reading below the Surface: Wordsworth and A Compositional Method,' The Wordsworth Circle (Winter 2003): 9-13.
'Retold Tales and Structured Silences in The Excursion,' Romanticism and Silence, eds. F. L. Price and S. J. Masson (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002).
Wordsworth’s “Spots of Time”. Dir. David Blacow. Scripted and presented by Sally Bushell. Videocassette and D.V.D. L.U.T.V., 2002.
'Intention Revisited: Towards an Anglo-American "genetic criticism",' TEXT, vol. 17 (2005).
'Wordsworthian Composition: The Micro-Prelude,' Studies in Romanticism (Summer/Fall 2005).
'Meaning in Dickinson’s Manuscripts: Intending the Unintentional,' Emily Dickinson Journal
'Teaching Living Poets: An Active Environment for Poetry,' Living Writers in the Curriculum, English Subject Centre Publication (2005).
The Excursion, co-edited with James Butler and Michael Jaye (Cornell University Press, 2007)
Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson and Dickinson (University Press of Virginia, 2009)
From Goslar to Grasmere: collaborative pilot project with The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, putting Wordsworth's manuscripts online for the first time
Reading Guides to Long Poems Series, Edinburgh University Press, General Editor (with Isobel Armstrong)
Dr Tess Cosslett
Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods, eds. Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury, and Penny Summerfield (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).
'Matrilineal Narratives Revisited', in Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods edited Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury, and Penny Summerfield (London and New York: Routledge, 2000) pp. 141-151.
'Child's Place in Nature: Talking Animals in Victorian Children's Fiction', Nineteenth Century Contexts, Vol 23 (2002), pp. 475-495.
'"History from Below": Time-Slip Narratives and National Identity', The Lion and the Unicorn, Vol. 26, No. 2 (April 2002), pp. 243-253
'Transformations of Pastoral and Gothic in Children's Fiction', Signal: Approaches to Children's Books, No. 98 (May 2002), pp.91-101.
'"Animals Under Man"? Margaret Gatty's Parables from Nature', Women's Writing Vol. 10 No. 1 (2003), pp. 137-152.
Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction,1786-1914 (Ashgate, 2006).
'The Summer Cottage in Finland-Swedish Literature: Tove Jansson, Solveig von Schoultz and Monika Fagerholm', in Kate McLoughlin and Malin Lidstrom Brock (eds), Tove Jansson Rediscovered, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp. 209-221.
Professor Terry Eagleton
The Idea of Culture. Verso, 2000
Crossing Boundaries: Thinking through Literature (contributor). Sheffield Academic Press, 2001
The Gatekeeper: A Memoir. Penguin, 2001
After Theory. Allen Lane, 2003
Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others. Verso, 2003
Sweet Violence: A Study of the Tragic. Blackwell, 2003
Holy Terror. Oxford University Press, 2005
How To Read A Poem. Blackwell, 2006
The Meaning of Life. Oxford University Press, 2007
Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics. Blackwell, 2008
Dr Alison Easton
Angela Carter, edited Alison Easton (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000).
'The Debateable Land: Ellis Island Museum, Margaret Elphinstone's A Sparrow's Flight and Border Readings', in Devolving Identities: Feminist Readings in Home and Belonging, edited Lynne Pearce (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp.56-72.
'Subjects-in-Time: Slavery and African-American Women's Autobiographies', in Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods edited Tess Cosslett, Celia Lury, and Penny Summerfield (London: Routledge, 2000), pp.171-184.
'Nation Making and Fiction Making: Sarah Orne Jewett, The Tory Lover, and Walter Scott, Waverley' in Special Relationships: Anglo-American Affinities and Antagonisms, 1845-1936 edited Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett (Manchester University Press 2002) 139-159.
'Hawthorne and the Question of Women' in The Cambridge Companion to Hawthorne, edited by Richard Millington (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp.79-98.
Dr Kamilla Elliott
'Exposing the Victorians,' Mid-Atlantick Almanac, special issue, 'Aspects of Victorian Culture in Contemporary Popular Culture,' eds. Richard Currie and Anthony Giffone, November 2002.
'The Victorian Novel in Film and on Television,' co-authored with Joss Marsh for The Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel, eds. Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing, Blackwell, 2002.
Featured guest with Susan Orlean in 'The Current,' Part 3, CBC Radio, August 4, 2003. Host Diana Swain. Producer Aaron Brindle. Archived at
http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2003/200308/20030804.html
Participant in a videotaped roundtable transcribed and edited by Gerhard Joseph: 'Dickens, psychoanalysis, and film: a roundtable,' Dickens on Screen, ed. John Glavin, Cambridge UP, October 2003.
'Cinematic Dickens and Uncinematic Words,' Dickens on Screen, ed. John Glavin, Cambridge UP, October 2003.
Rethinking the Novel/Film Debate, Cambridge UP, 2003.
'Literary Film Adaptation and the Form/Content Dilemma,' Narrative Across Media, ed. Marie-Laure Ryan, Nebraska UP, Winter 2004.
'Through the Looking Glass: Pedagogical Uses of Literary Film Adaptations,' Visual Media and the Humanities: A Pedagogy of Representation, ed. Kecia McBride, U of Tennessee P, November 2004.
'Novels, Films, and the Word/Image Wars,' A Companion to Film and Literature, ed. Robert Stam, Blackwell, 2004.
"Gothic-Film-Parody," The Routledge Companion to Gothic, eds. Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy, Routledge University Press, 2007. pp. 361-78.
"The Romance of Politics and the Politics of Romance in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton," The Gaskell Society Journal 21 (2007): 21-37.
"The Deconstruction of Fundamental Christianity," Textual Practice 20.4 (2006): 713-38.
Professor Alison Findlay
Scenes from A Pastorall by Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley, directed Alison Findlay (video, Lancaster University Television, September, 2000).
Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700, with Stephanie Hodgson-Wright and Gweno Williams (Longman's Medieval and Renaissance Library; Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000).
'Women and Drama', in A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture edited Michael Hattaway (Oxford: Blackwell, December 2000), pp. 499-512.
'Theatres of Truth: Drinking and Drama in Early Modern England' in A Babel of Bottles: Drink, Drinkers and Drinking Places in Literature, edited J ames Nicholls and Susan J. Owen (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), pp. 21-40.
'(En)gendering Performance: Staging Plays by Early Modern Women', with Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, and Gweno Williams, in Attending to Early Modern Women: Crossing Boundaries edited Jane Donaworth and Adele Seeff (Newark : University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 289-308.
'Gendering the Stage' in The Blackwell Companion to Renaissance Drama edited Arthur Kinney (Blackwell Publishers, 2002) 399-415.
'Sexual and Spiritual Politics in the events of 1633-4 and Heywood and Brome's The Late Lancashire Witches' in The Late Lancashire edited Robert Poole (Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 126-145.
'Much Ado About Nothing' in A Companion to Shakespeare: The Comedies edited Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Oxford, Blackwell, 2003).
‘Daughters of Ben’, in Jonsonians: a living tradition, ed. Brian Woolland (Ashgate Press, December 2003), pp.107-120.
'Playing Spaces and Performances in the Age of Shakespeare' Literature Compass 1 (2003) SH 033, ed. Michael Hattaway (Blackwell Publishers), 1-7.
http://www.literature-compass.com/shakespeare/view_LICO_033.asp.
'"Adam's Sons are My Bretheren": Reading Beatrice's Feminism, Past and Present,' in The Shakespeare Yearbook 2003: New Studies in the Shakespearian Heroine, ed. Helen Wilcox.
'"I hate such an old fashioned house": Margaret Cavendish and the search for home', Early Modern Literary Studies, Special issue on Margaret Cavendish (2004).
'"Good sometimes queen": Richard II, Mary Stuart and the Poetics of Queenship,' in Shakespeare's Histories and Counter-Histories, ed. Dermot Cavanagh, Stuart Hampton-Reeves and Steve Longstaffe (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2004)
‘Theatres for Early Modern Women: From Household to Playhouse’, in Women and Drama in England and Spain 1500-1700, ed. Rina Walthaus, Marguerite Corporaal and Helen Wilcox (Kassel: Reichenberger, forthcoming 2004).
Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama (contracted to Cambridge University Press for publication in 2005). Monograph, approx 90,000 words. AHRB funding to cover leave in Lent-Summer term 2004, ms to be submitted January 2005.
‘Sisterly Feelings in the drama of Cavendish and Brackley,’ in Thicker Than Water: Sisters and Brothers in the Early Modern World, ed. Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh (to be published by Ashgate, 2005)
Women in Shakespeare, monograph as part of the Shakespeare Dictionary Series (General Editor Sandra Clark) contracted to Continuum Press for publication in 2006. MS to be submitted March 2006.
Dr Michael Greaney
'Lord Jim and Embarrassment', in 'Lord Jim': Centennial Essays, edited Allan H. Simmons and J. H. Stape (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 1-14.
Conrad, Language and Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
'Stories of Work in Heart of Darkness', in Wieslaw Krajka, ed., Beyond the Roots: The Evolution of Conrad's Ideology and Art (Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, 2005), pp. 81-94.
Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory: The Novel from Structuralism to Postmodernism (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006).
'Suspended Animation: Futures of Technophobia', in Technicity, eds Arthur Bradley and Louis Armand (Prague: Litteraria Pragnesia, 2006), pp. 346-369.
Professor Keith Hanley
'Wordsworth's Grand Tour', in Romantic Geographies: Discourses of Travel 1775-1884, edited Amanda Gilroy (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp.71-92.
Wordsworth: A Poet's History (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2001).
Joanna Baillie: A Selection of Plays and Poems edited Amanda Gilroy and Keith Hanley (London Pickering and Chatto, 2002).
'The Presentation and Reception of Wordsworth's Texts' in The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth edited Stephen Gill (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
'"Things of which I need not speak": Between the Domestic and Public in Wordsworth's Poetry', in The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. XXXIV, No.1, Winter 2003, pp.39-44.
'Textual Issues and a Guide to Further Reading', in The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth, ed. Stephen Gill, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 246-64.
'Following Wordsworth, Resolutely and Independently', forthcoming in The Wordsworth Circle.
Co-curated the exhibition on Ruskin's Northern Times, the Ruskin Library, March 2003.
Dr Hilary Hinds
'The Undeveloped Heart: Forster, Pym and the English South', in Lynne Pearce (ed.) Devolving Identities: Feminist Readings in Home and Belonging (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp. 37-55.
Anna Trapnel’s The Cry of a Stone (1654), Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000), pp. i-li; 1-119.
'Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea', in Anita Pacheco (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Early-Modern Women's Writing (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 177-188.
'Imaging Feminism, Imaging Femininity: Bra-Burners, Diana, and Women Who Kill', Feminist Media Studies vol. 1, no. 2 (2001). Jointly authored with Jackie Stacey; pp. 153-177.
Simon Barker and Hilary Hinds (eds) The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama (London: Routledge, 2003) pp. 1 - 457. Accompanied by supplementary website, comprising contextual materials contemporary with, and supplementary to, the plays in the anthology: http://routledge.com/textbooks/0415187346/.
‘Soul-Ravishing and Sin-Subduing: Anna Trapnel and the Gendered Politics of Free Grace’. Invited contribution to ‘Literature and Religion in Early Modern England: Case Studies’: special issue of Renaissance and Reformation, new series, 25.4; old series, 37.4 (2001); date of issue 2003; pp. 117-138.
‘Sectarian Spaces: The Politics of Place and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Sectarian Writing’, Literature and History, third series, 13: 2 (2004), pp. 1-25.
‘An Absent Presence: Quaker Narratives of Journeys to America and Barbados, 1671-1681’, Quaker Studies vol. 10, no. 1 (2005), pp. 6-30.
'The Transvaluation of Body and Soul in the Spiritual Autobiographies of Anna Trapnel': in Jan N. Bremmer, Wout J. an Bekkum and Arie L. Molendijk (eds) Paradigms, Poetics and Politics of Conversion, in series ‘Groningen Studies in Cultural Change’ (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2006), pp. 107-121.
‘Embodied Rhetoric: Quaker Public Discourse in the 1650s’, in Jennifer Richards and Alison Thorne (eds), Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 191-211.
‘The Paratextual Profusion of Radical Sectarian Women’s Writing of the 1640s.’ Prose Studies vol. 29, no. 2 (2007), pp.153-177
‘The Journal of George Fox: A Technology of Presence’; Quaker Studies vol. 12, no. 7 (2007), pp. 1-18. Co-authored with Alison Findlay.
Dr Lee Horsley
The Noir Thriller from 1920 to the Near Future, Crime Files series edited by Clive Bloom (London: Palgrave, 2001).
'Fatal Women in the Hard-Boiled Fifties', Crime Time: The Journal of Crime Fiction 25 (Autumn 2001) 39-44.
Crimeculture.com (founded jointly with Katharine Horsley, October 2002) academic web site for students/teachers of crime fiction as well as for a more general readership. http://www.crimeculture.com
Pulporiginals.com (founded jointly with Allan Guthrie, mid-October 2003) a web e-book publishing venture making available mid-century 'pulp original' crime novels. Most recent titles published: a double edition, Day Keene's Sleep with the Devil and Who Has Wilma Lathrop? http://www.pulporiginals.com
'Hard-Boiled Investigators' ('Crime-Mystery-Detective Stories' section of Justin Carr (ed), Short Story Criticism, Gale, 2003 (Vol. 59, 173-210).
'Body Language: Reading the Corpse in Forensic Crime Fiction', co-authored with Katharine Horsley (Paradoxa, Summer 2006).
'Learning Italian: Serial Killers Abroad in the Novels of Highsmith and Harris' (jointly with Katharine Horsley), in Differences, Deceits and Desires: Murder and Mayhem in the Mare Nostrum, ed. Mirna Cicioni et al (University of Delaware Press, 2007).
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2005).
‘In Virtuality Veritas’, with Graham Mort, Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 7(3): 513-525 (Fall 2007).
'The Implied Supervisor', with Graham Mort, The International Journal of Learning, vol. 14.4, 2007, 37-44.
'Hard-Boiled and Noir in Twentieth-Century American Crime Fiction,' in The Blackwell Companion to 20th Century US Fiction, ed David Seed (Blackwell, 2009).
The Noir Thriller, a revised and extended edition, with additional section on 'Literary Noir in the 21st Century' (Palgrave, July 2009).
The Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction, co-edited with Charles Rzepka (Wiley:Blackwell, February 2010).
'Dead Dolls and Deadly Dames: the Cover Girls of American True Crime Publishing', forthcoming in Crime Culture, ed Bran Nicol, Continuum.
Dr Lindsey Moore
'"Some internalisation of the other has already begun": Borderwork/Translation in Writing by Assia Djebar and Ahdaf Soueif', Comparative Literature and Translation/Littérature Comparée et Traduction, ed. CCLMC, Rabat: MJB, 2006.
'Women in a Widening Frame: (Cross-)Cultural Projection, Spectatorship and Iranian Cinema', Camera Obscura: Journal of Feminism and Film Theory 20:2 (2005): 1-33.
'The Veil of Nationalism: Frantz Fanon's "Algeria Unveiled" and Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers ', Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing 25:2 (2003): 56-73.
'Frayed Connections, Fraught Projections: The Troubling Work of Shirin Neshat', Women: A Cultural Review 13:1 (Spring 2002): 1-17.
Book Review. Peter Hitchcock, Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism , Nicholas Harrison, Postcolonial Criticism: History, Thoery and the Work of Fiction , Stephen Morton, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , Textual Practice 181 (Spring 2004):131-40.
Arab, Muslim, Woman: Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film (Routledge, 2008).
Dr Liz Oakley-Brown
Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006).
'Titus Andronicus and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England', Renaissance Studies 19.3 (2005), 325-47.
'Framing Robin Hood: Textuality and Temporality in Anthony Munday's Huntington Plays', in Robin Hood: Medieval and Post-Medieval , ed. by Helen Phillips (Four Courts Press, 2005), pp. 113-128.
(with Matt Jarvis) 'Talking After Theory: An Interview with Terry Eagleton', English, 53 (2004), 177-190
'Ovid's Metamorphoses and the Sexual Politics of Translation in Early Modern England', Literature Compass, 1, 2003, 1-19.
'The Cultural Politics of Classical Translation', English, 52.202 (2003), pp. 81-85.
Roger Ellis and Liz Oakley-Brown (eds.), Translation and Nation: Towards a Cultural Politics of Englishness (Multilingual Matters, 2001).
'Translating the Subject: Ovid's Metamorphoses in England 1560-67', in Translation and Nation: Towards A Cultural Politics of Englishness, ed. by Roger Ellis and Liz Oakley-Brown (Multilingual Matters, 2001), pp. 48-84.
Professor Lynne Pearce
Devolving Identities: Feminist Readings in Home and Belonging, ed. Lynne Pearce (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000).
'Devolutionary Desires' in De-centring Sexualities: Politics and Representations Beyond the Metropolis, ed. Richard Phillips, David Shuttleton, and Diane Watt (London and New York: Routledge, 2000) pp. 241-257.
'The viewer as producer: British and Canadian feminists reading Prudence Heward's "Women"'. RACAR, xxv(1-2), 2001, 94-102.
'The place of literature in the spaces of belonging', European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3, (August 2002), pp. 275-91.
'"Jaz" - bralka: besidilo, sobesedilo in ravnovesje moci' [translation of part of book into Slovenian], Tina Potrato in Apokalipsa, 72, October 2003, pp.63-73.
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press (London and New York, Routledge, Sept 2003).
How to Examine a Thesis (Milton Keynes, Open University Press, 2004)
'Popular Romance and its Readers' in A Companion to Romance, ed Corrine Saunders (Oxford, Blackwell, 2004), pp. 521-538.
‘The Dialogic Principle’, in The Oxford Guide to Literary Theory, ed. Patricia Waugh (Oxford: Oxford Univesrity Press, forthcoming 2004/5).
‘After the Twilight: Intimacy and Its Demise in Late Twentieth-Century Lesbian Romance’ in After Intimacy: The Culture of Divorce in the West since 1789’, eds. Karl Leydecker and Nicholas White (Peter Lang, forthcoming 2005).
Mr Tony Pinkney
'Eliot as Critic and Teaching The Waste Land', CIEFL Bulletin, Vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2, December 2001 (co-authored with Georgina Taylor).
'J.W. Mackail as Literary Critic', Journal of the William Morris Society, 2000.
'News from Nowhere' entry in Encyclopaedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004/5).
'Kinetic Utopias: H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia and William Morris's News from Nowhere ', Journal of William Morris Studies , vol XVI, nos 2 and 3, Summer-Winter 2005, pp.49-55.
We Met Morris: Interviews with William Morris, 1885-96, editor (Reading: Spire Books Ltd, 2005).
Morning Chats with William Morris, by R. Ponsonby Staples, available as a Word download.
Professor John Schad
Arthur Hugh Clough - Writers and their Work (British Council/ Northcote House 2006) 120pp.
Queer Fish: Christian Unreason from Darwin to Joyce (Sussex Academic Press, 2004) 180pp
life.after.theory, ed., with Michael Payne (Continuum, 2003) 194pp.
Writing the Bodies of Christ: the Church from Carlyle to Derrida, ed. (Ashgate, 2001) 180pp.
'Someone Called Derrida. An Oxford Mystery,' Textual Practice 21 (2007) 1-14.
Someone Called Derrida. An Oxford Mystery (Sussex Academic Press, 2007).
Dr Tony Sharpe
Wallace Stevens: A Literary Life (London: Macmillan and New York: St Martin's, 2000).
'Auden's Prose', Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden, ed. Stan Smith, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 110-22
'"The Planet on the Table": Some Modernist Perspectives on Globalism', Globalisation and Its Discontents: Writing the Global Culture, Essays Marking the Centenary of the English Association, ed. Stan Smith, (Suffolk and New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2006), pp. 104-23
W.H. Auden (Abingbdon and New York: Routledge, 2007)
'Paysage Moralise: Auden and Maps', The W.H. Auden Society Newsletter, 29 (Dec. 2007), pp. 5-12
'"Having to Construct": Dissembly Lines in the Ariel Poems and Ash-Wednesday', in Blackwell Companion to T.S. Eliot (ed. David Chinitz, forthcoming 2008)
'Conversion Narratives or "The Farmer and the Cowboy Should Be Friends"', British and Irish Contemporary Poetry, No 1, (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming 2008)
Dr Catherine Spooner
Contemporary Gothic (Korean edition), Seoul: Samunnangeok Press, 2008
The Routledge Companion to Gothic, co-edited with Emma McEvoy (London: Routledge, 2007).
'Spiritual Garments': Fashioning the Victorian Seance in Sarah Waters's Affinity', in Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature ed. Cynthia Kuhn and Cindy Carlson (New York: Cambria Press, 2007).
Undead Fashion: Nineties Style and the Perennial Return of Goth', in Goth: Undead Subculture ed. Michael Bibby and Lauren Goodlad (Chicago: Duke University Press, 2007).
Contemporary Gothic (Focus on Contemporary Issues series), (London: Reaktion, 2006). Click here for review in Art Review magazine; and here for review in Cultural Sociology.
Fashioning Gothic Bodies, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004).
'Angela Carter', 'Emma Tennant', and 'Counterculture and Literature' in The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature ed. Steven Serafin and Valerie Grosvenor Myers (New York: Continuum, 2003).
'Cosmo - Gothic: the Double and the Single Woman' in Women: A Cultural Review (Vol. 12, no. 3, winter 2001, 292-305).
'Goth Boys in the Media: Femininity and Violence' in The Men's Fashion Reader ed. Andrew Reilly and Sarah Cosbey (New York: Fairchild Books, 2008).
Dr Jayne Steel
'Three Voices'. Short story commissioned for performance at Lancaster Literature Festival. 1998.
'Taking the Trama Out of Creative Writing', Writing in Education (spring 2001).
Mavis and the Mermaid: screenplay for Shoreline Films. Winner of 2000 'Kodak Showcase for New European Talent'. Shown at 2000 Cannes Film Festival and 2000 Edinburgh Film Festival. Screened in London, Los Angeles, Houston and Sweden. Short-listed for the 'Stella Artois Short Film Shoot-Out' and 'Writing on the Wall'. Won the coveted 'Special Gold Jury Award' at 2001 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival'.
Public showing of Story of the Sands at the Poetry Society in London (May 2001).
Thereby Hangs A Tale: screenplay (2001). Winner of 2001 Third Annual DNA/Script Factory First Draft Award.
'The Trials of Death on the Rock' Irish Review 27 (Summer 2001).
'The Television Document and the Real', JPCS, 8.2 (Autumn 2003).
'And Behind Him A Wicked Hag Did Stalk' in Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags: Historical and Cultural Representations of Iris Nationalist Women (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2004).
'Pyschologising the Private', in Representing The Troubles: Texts and Images, eds. Brian Cliff and Eibhear Walshe(Dublin: Four Courts, 2004).
Frozen: Screenplay. Feature film. RS Productions (2004). Premiered at London Film Festival.
'Jayne Steel on How To Write Like Isabelle Allende', Myslexia (25: Spring, 2005), 49.
Wordsmithery: The Writer's Craft and Practice (London: Palgrave, 2006).
Demons, Hamlets and Femmes Fatales: Representations of the Troubles (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007).
Dr Andrew Tate
'"Archangel" Veronese: Ruskin as Protestant Spectator', in Ruskin's Artists: Studies in the Victorian Visual Economy, ed. Robert Hewison (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), pp.131-145.
Contributor of explanatory notes on French Painters for electronic edition of Ruskin's Modern Painters I (1843).
'Evangelical certainties: Charles Spurgeon and the sermon as crisis literature', in Woodhead, L. (ed.), Reinventing Christianity: nineteenth-century contexts, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2001, 27-36.
'"Now - here is my secret": Ritual and Epiphany in Douglas Coupland's Fiction', Literature and Theology 16:3 (2002) 326-338.
Essays on George Butler, W.P. Ker, Carveth Read and Henry James Richter, Dictionary of Nineteenth Century British Philosophers (Thoemmes Press, 2002), pp. 171-2, 631-2, 942-3, 951-2.
'Firing the Canon: the BBC's Big Read', Third Way, 26.6 (2003), pp. 8-9.
'"He himself with His Human Air": Browning writes 'the Body of Christ'', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 25.1(2003), pp. 39-43.
'"I Was Guilty": Interpretation as heresy in John Updike's Roger's Version', The Glass, 16 (Spring 2004).
'“So, here, be well again”: the human/divine body of Jesus Jim Crace's Quarantine', Figures of Heresy: Radical Theology in, ed. by Jonathan Taylor and Andrew Dix (Brighton: Sussex Press, 2005).
'Postmodernism, the Bible and Culture', The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture, ed. by John Sawyer (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005).
'”I am your witness”: Douglas Coupland at the end of the world', Biblical Religion and the Novel, ed. Mark Wright (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
Douglas Coupland [Contemporary World Writers] (Manchester University Press, 2007)
Contemporary Fiction and Christianity (Continuum, 2008)
The New Atheist Novel: Philosophy, Fiction and Polemic after 9/11 (co-authored with Arthur Bradley) (London: Continuum, forthcoming, 2010).
Professor Emeritus Meg Twycross
'The Leuven Ommegang and Leuven City Archives: Report on Work in Progress' in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on European Medieval Drama, Camerino edited André Lascombes (European Medieval Drama 4; Turnhout: Brepols, 2001).
'"Fart Prike in Cule": The Pictures', with with Malcolm Jones (Sheffield) and Alan J. Fletcher (UC Dublin), Medieval English Theatre 23 (2001) pp. 100-121.
Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England, with Sarah Carpenter (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).
Editor, Medieval English Theatre.
Editorial Advisory Board, European Medieval Drama.
Editorial Board, Durham Medieval Texts.
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