Outputs (4)

'Thou Breath of Autumn’s Being': Voicing Masculinity in the Poetry of Late Life (2023)
Journal Article
Shears. (in press). 'Thou Breath of Autumn’s Being': Voicing Masculinity in the Poetry of Late Life. Journal of the British Academy, https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011s2.095

This essay argues that lyric poetry is a form suited to contesting dominant ideas about masculinity because of its thematic and formal preoccupations with voice. It argues that voice offers a different way of viewing the social constrictions that acc... Read More about 'Thou Breath of Autumn’s Being': Voicing Masculinity in the Poetry of Late Life.

Introduction: Narratives of Old Age and Gender: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (2023)
Journal Article
Shears, J., Adiseshiah, S., & Culley, A. (2023). Introduction: Narratives of Old Age and Gender: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives. Journal of the British Academy, 11s2, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/011s2.001

The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution (2023)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2023). The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution. Romanticism, 29(2), 205-206. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2023.0603

‘Rough Critical Winds’: Mis-selling English Pastoral in H. E. Bates’s Larkin Novels, 1958-1970’ (2023)
Journal Article
Shears. (2023). ‘Rough Critical Winds’: Mis-selling English Pastoral in H. E. Bates’s Larkin Novels, 1958-1970’. English Studies, 104(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2023.2188806

The revival of interest in H. E. Bates has largely come without much attention being paid to his series of five novels featuring the Larkin family (1958-1970). The neglect is because of their populist and comic mode. Yet, study of the Larkin novels e... Read More about ‘Rough Critical Winds’: Mis-selling English Pastoral in H. E. Bates’s Larkin Novels, 1958-1970’.