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‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’ (2022)
Book Chapter
Janes. (2022). ‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’. In Locating Queer Histories: Places and Traces Across the UK. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350143753.ch-4

Ranging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history.

The chapters cover a broad range of themes f... Read More about ‘Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer’s loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)’.

Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900 (2016)
Book
Janes. (2016). Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900

"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom which erupted in laughter accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a sod... Read More about Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900.

The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain (2016)
Journal Article
Janes. (2016). The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 26-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2015.1120085

The Wordless Book is widely used today in programs of Christian teaching and evangelism across the world. It consists of a series of blank pages which are colored in accordance with religious symbolism (black in reference to sin, red in reference to... Read More about The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain.

Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes (2014)
Journal Article
Janes. (2014). Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes. Literature and History, 19-32. https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.1.2

The life and work of John Maynard Keynes should be situated in relation to his membership of the Bloomsbury Group. The members of this circle of friends experimented in their lives and works with a variety of transgressions of contemporary expectatio... Read More about Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes.