Gyorgy Lukacs and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2023)
Journal Article
Davies, L. L. (2023). Gyorgy Lukacs and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 71(2), 127-144. https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2023-2014

This article explores Gyorgy Lukacs's reflections on the relationship between the eighteenth-century novel and early modern capitalism. As such, it offers a critical overview of Lukacs's treatment of this subject in two major works - The Theory of th... Read More about Gyorgy Lukacs and the Eighteenth-Century Novel.

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.

The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Andrea Charise. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. Pp. xlv+194. (2021)
Journal Article
Shears. (2021). The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel. Andrea Charise. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. Pp. xlv+194. Modern Philology, 118(4), E264 - E266. https://doi.org/10.1086/712592

Aphra Behn's The City Heiress. In The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. IV: Plays 1682-96 (General eds. Mel Evans, Elaine Hobby, Gillian Wright, Claire Bowditch) (2021)
Other
Adcock. (2021). Aphra Behn's The City Heiress. In The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. IV: Plays 1682-96 (General eds. Mel Evans, Elaine Hobby, Gillian Wright, Claire Bowditch)

Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709) (2021)
Journal Article
Seager, N. (2021). Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709). Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 115(1), 79-86. https://doi.org/10.1086/712790

This article aims to remove the “probable” caveat from one title listed in P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens’s Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (1998). It demonstrates that previously overlooked external evidence confirms the internal evidence cited... Read More about Defoe, the Sacheverell Affair, and A Letter to Mr. Bisset (1709).

May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte (2020)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2020). May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte. Feminist Modernist Studies, 1 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1080/24692921.2020.1850146

This article surveys May Sinclair’s writing on the Brontë sisters in order to chart her revisionist impulse with relation to their reputation, her anxiety about her own literary reputation, genius in women and intellectual self-sufficiency. I argue t... Read More about May Sinclair and the Brontë myth: rewilding and dissocializing Charlotte.

“Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy (2020)
Journal Article
Yearling. (2020). “Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy. Shakespeare, 16(4), 373-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450918.2020.1787496

Any discussion of comedy as a dramatic form is rendered difficult by the fact that the term "comedy" has two quite separate meanings: a work that is intended to make spectators laugh and a work that has a happy ending. In the early modern period, lit... Read More about “Distinguishing Form”: Shakespeare, Perspective and the Heartlessness of Comedy.

One Hundred Years of the Stream of Consciousness: Editors’ Introduction (2020)
Journal Article
Bowler. (2020). One Hundred Years of the Stream of Consciousness: Editors’ Introduction. Literature Compass, https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12570

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Critical Edition of The Sacred Fount (2019)
Book
Lustig. (2019). T. Lustig (Ed.), Critical Edition of The Sacred Fount

The Clause Proposed in the English Parliament to Prevent the French Goods Being Imported Thro’ Scotland (1707): A New Defoe Attribution (2019)
Journal Article
Seager. (2019). The Clause Proposed in the English Parliament to Prevent the French Goods Being Imported Thro’ Scotland (1707): A New Defoe Attribution. Notes and Queries, 66(1), 83-85. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjy212

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Fictional Montreal - Montreal Fictif (Digital Map) (2019)
Digital Artefact
Morgan. (2019). Fictional Montreal - Montreal Fictif (Digital Map)

Fictional Montreal/Montréal fictif is a project by Geohumanities scholar, Ceri Morgan (Keele University, UK) and media artist, Philip Lichti (Montreal, QC). Built around audio recordings of authors reading from their works, the map offers a tour of M... Read More about Fictional Montreal - Montreal Fictif (Digital Map).

(Un)familiar Fictions: The 17th October 1961 Massacre And Jacques Panijel’s Octobre À Paris (1962) (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). (Un)familiar Fictions: The 17th October 1961 Massacre And Jacques Panijel’s Octobre À Paris (1962). Forum for Modern Language Studies, 157-175. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqy001

The 17th October 1961 police massacre of hundreds of protesting Algerians in the centre of Paris has become one of the most recognized events of the French-Algerian war. There are several online interactive documentaries about the event as well as a... Read More about (Un)familiar Fictions: The 17th October 1961 Massacre And Jacques Panijel’s Octobre À Paris (1962).

Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession (2017)
Journal Article
Seager. (2017). Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession. Huntington Library Quarterly, 47-69. https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2017.0002

In this essay, Nicholas Seager argues for re-attributing two pamphlets to Daniel Defoe: A Secret History of One Year (1714) and Memoirs of the Conduct of Her Late Majesty and Her Last Ministry (1715). These works, published shortly after the Hanoveri... Read More about Literary Evaluation and Authorship Attribution, or Defoe's Politics at the Hanoverian Succession.

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.

The commune in exile: urban insurrection and the production of international space (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). The commune in exile: urban insurrection and the production of international space. In Nineteenth-Century Radical Traditions (113-136). https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59706-9_6

In Chapter 11 of J.-K. Huysmans’s A Rebours (1884; usually translated as Against Nature), Des Esseintes, its reclusive hero, inspired by reading Charles Dickens, leaves home with the intention of visiting London. He never arrives. Instead, he succeed... Read More about The commune in exile: urban insurrection and the production of international space.

The Novel Sequence (2016)
Book Chapter
Bentley. (2016). The Novel Sequence. In P. Boxall, & B. Cheyette (Eds.), The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940 (258--271). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198749394.003.0017

This chapter examines the novel sequence. The novel sequence has been an important part of British and Irish literary output in the period since 1940, with examples in all the major genres and modes of fiction. The post-Second World War period repres... Read More about The Novel Sequence.

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.

The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion (2014)
Journal Article
Janes. (2014). The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion. Victorian Periodicals Review, 66-86. https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2014.0006

Satires on various aspects of contemporary religion are frequently found in early Victorian editions of Punch. The more strident forms of Protestant evangelicalism in the 1840s and Roman Catholic revivalism in the early 1850s came in for particular a... Read More about The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion.