Outputs (956)

Stafford Infirmary and the ‘unreformed’ nurse, 1765-1820 (2023)
Book Chapter
Tomkins. (2023). Stafford Infirmary and the ‘unreformed’ nurse, 1765-1820. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham (267-287)

There never was a viler wretch in a place of dignity: Thomas Wood as Dean and Bishop of Lichfield and the Divisions of the Later Stuart Church (2023)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2023). There never was a viler wretch in a place of dignity: Thomas Wood as Dean and Bishop of Lichfield and the Divisions of the Later Stuart Church. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham (Staffordshire Record Society, Collections for a History of Staffordshire. Staffordshire Record Society

The BJP and the war on history (2023)
Book Chapter
Sharma. (2023). The BJP and the war on history. In Passionate politics Democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election (53-62). https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00012

This book illustrates the economic, social and cultural processes that shaped political passions in India during the summer of 2019. The contributors compel us to take seriously the ‘structures of feeling’ in politics.

22 ‘What God hath joined, let no pragmatist put asunder’: May Sinclair’s Philosophical Idealism as Surrogate Religion (2023)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2023). 22 ‘What God hath joined, let no pragmatist put asunder’: May Sinclair’s Philosophical Idealism as Surrogate Religion. In The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion (358-370). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474494793-025

Introduction to May Sinclair, Cuentos de lo insólito (2023)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. (2023). Introduction to May Sinclair, Cuentos de lo insólito. In May Sinclair; Cuentos de lo insólito. (1). Spain: La Biblioteca De Carfax

Introduction to Spanish translation of May Sinclair's Uncanny Stories

Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (2023)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2023). Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot. Modernism/modernity, 30(1), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2023.a902605

This article examines two of Claude McKay’s novels, Home to Harlem (1928) and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot (1929) with relation to their characters’ complex and sometimes seemingly contradictory attitude to food cultures. McKay’s characters demonstr... Read More about Comfort Food and Respectability Politics in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem and Banjo: A Story Without a Plot.

“Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain, by Charles Upchurch (2023)
Journal Article
Janes, D. (2023). “Beyond the Law”: The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain, by Charles Upchurch. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 32(1),

Henry James and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Victorian Medievalism and Modern Criticism (2023)
Journal Article
Lustig. (2023). Henry James and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Victorian Medievalism and Modern Criticism. Henry James Review, 44(1), 79-99. https://doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2023.0004

This article offers two case studies. The first examines James’s encounters with medieval buildings in his early travel writings. The second takes as its starting point James’s involvement in The Quest of the Holy Grail, a text which accompanied an 1... Read More about Henry James and the Quest for the Holy Grail: Victorian Medievalism and Modern Criticism.

Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s (2023)
Journal Article
Ballantyne. (2023). Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s. Journal of American Studies, 57(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875822000299

This article traces the approach of moderate southern Senators toward domestic hunger and welfare in the late 1960s and the 1970s. Often overlooked in scholarly accounts, these Senators formed a significant minority of the southern delegation. Their... Read More about Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s.

Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction: by Lyndsay Galpin, 2022, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 193pp, £85.00 (hardback), £76.50 (ebook), ISBN: 9781350264892 (2023)
Journal Article
Tomkins, A. (2023). Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction: by Lyndsay Galpin, 2022, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 193pp, £85.00 (hardback), £76.50 (ebook), ISBN: 9781350264892. Women's History Review, 32(3), 435-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2022.2160104