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Self and Society (2021)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2021). Self and Society. . (1). Bloomsbury Publishing

Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study (2020)
Journal Article
Kistler, J., & Shears, J. (2020). Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/bj37-7330

Screencasts and other video content offer an innovative means of improving communication between tutors and students and addressing student concerns about limited contact hours, which can be particularly pressing in English Literature. Our students’... Read More about Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study.

'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience (2019)
Journal Article
Shears. (2019). 'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience. Romanticism, 249-260. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0430

This article explores the complications involved in speaking from a position of seniority and experience in the life and work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It goes beyond the familiar caricatures of Coleridge as a garrulous old man, perpetuated by the... Read More about 'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience.

I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts (2018)
Book Chapter
Shears. (2018). I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts. In Byron and Marginality (291 - 307)

It is arguable that Byron’s letters and journals have never really been on the fringes or margins of our responses to the poet. Those published, albeit in censored form, in Thomas Moore’s Letters and Journals of Lord Byron as early as 1830 made an im... Read More about I Ask His Pardon for a Postscript: Byron's Epistolary Afterthoughts.

In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness (2017)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2017). In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness. Christianity and Literature, 193-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148333116645609

While Byron is a poet often associated with feelings of resentment and anger, he is usually marginalized when it comes to the topic of forgiveness in the Romantic period. If forgiveness is debated in Byron then it is usually dominated by the suspicio... Read More about In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness.

Byron's Hypochondria (2016)
Book Chapter
Shears, J. (2016). Byron's Hypochondria. In Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (Ed. by J. Shears) (2016)
Book
Shears, J., & Beatty, B. (2016). J. Shears, & B. Beatty (Eds.). Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (Ed. by J. Shears). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This volume is the first to draw together, in eight original essays by international scholars, some of the dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron’s temperament and behaviour. Using discourses and paradigms drawn from a variety of disciplin... Read More about Byron's Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind (Ed. by J. Shears).