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Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (50-78). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0003

Verbal exchange of information was commonplace, but many of these oral exchanges were immediately lost from record as they were not committed to paper. Drawing on merchants’ correspondence and letter-books, this chapter pieces together the role of or... Read More about Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information.

Commercial Education (2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Commercial Education. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (79-120). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0004

Commerce in the early modern period was a highly skilled profession. We know much about the increase in formal commercial education, the role of apprenticeships, and the publication of printed didactic texts such as advice books, but we know less abo... Read More about Commercial Education.

A post-work approach to influencer labour: the paradox of sustainability influencers (2025)
Journal Article
Wood, R. (in press). A post-work approach to influencer labour: the paradox of sustainability influencers. Social Media + Society,

How do Instagram sustainability influencers communicate criticisms of consumer culture, and try to promote more sustainable alternatives, in the context of a platform and industry that seeks to promote consumption by design? Drawing on an ethnography... Read More about A post-work approach to influencer labour: the paradox of sustainability influencers.

“It wasn’t always like this”: Displacement and the Poetics of Gentrification in Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks (2016) (2025)
Journal Article
Bentley, N. (2025). “It wasn’t always like this”: Displacement and the Poetics of Gentrification in Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks (2016). English Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2446873

This article examines narratives of gentrification with respect to post-industrial landscapes in the context of contemporary Britain. As Tom Slater (2009) has argued, underneath the rhetoric of regeneration and renewal, gentrification often involves... Read More about “It wasn’t always like this”: Displacement and the Poetics of Gentrification in Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks (2016).

Dissenting Writing (2025)
Book Chapter
Seager, N. Dissenting Writing. In The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1640-1714 (230-249). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198746843.013.15

Dissenters contributed to religio-political controversy, publicly debating doctrinal, ecclesiological, and constitutional topics. They wrote in private genres intended for limited circulation, including diaries and letters. Their instructional writin... Read More about Dissenting Writing.

Introduction: “Urban Intersections: Class, Race, Gender and Gentrification” (2025)
Journal Article
Bentley, N., & Peacock, J. (in press). Introduction: “Urban Intersections: Class, Race, Gender and Gentrification”. English Studies, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2446875

The contributors to this special issue share the understanding that literature has an important contribution to make to scholarly discussions of gentrification. Their articles on a wide variety of contemporary novelists and poets writing in English r... Read More about Introduction: “Urban Intersections: Class, Race, Gender and Gentrification”.

Gertrude Stein's Curatorial Impressionism (2025)
Book Chapter
Bowler, R. Gertrude Stein's Curatorial Impressionism. In The Edinburgh Companion to Women's Experimental Literature since 1900. Edinburgh University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Gertrude Stein’s early work, those short and abstract ‘portraits’ of friends and of ‘types’, has been often described as impressionist, post-impressionist, and even cubist. The word ‘portraits’, of course, invites a painterly comparison. Key to both... Read More about Gertrude Stein's Curatorial Impressionism.