The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (Ed. Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears) (2024)
Book
Shears, J., & Rawes, A. (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (Ed. Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808800.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era in English Literature. The volume presents forty-five groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron’s central posit... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (Ed. Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears).

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

An Allusion to Don Juan: Reappraising Branwell Bronte's Byronic Self-Fashioning (2021)
Journal Article
Shears, J. (2021). An Allusion to Don Juan: Reappraising Branwell Bronte's Byronic Self-Fashioning. Brontë Studies, 30-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/14748932.2021.1991615

In January 1847, Branwell Brontë wrote a letter to his friend J. B. Leyland quoting from Lord Byron’s satirical epic Don Juan. This was an unusual choice of allusion given that the topic is Byron’s feelings of longsuffering that Branwell usually rela... Read More about An Allusion to Don Juan: Reappraising Branwell Bronte's Byronic Self-Fashioning.

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

Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study (2020)
Journal Article
Kistler, J., & Shears, J. (2020). Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/bj37-7330

Screencasts and other video content offer an innovative means of improving communication between tutors and students and addressing student concerns about limited contact hours, which can be particularly pressing in English Literature. Our students’... Read More about Integrating Video Content into Humanities Teaching: a case study.

'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience (2019)
Journal Article
Shears. (2019). 'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience. Romanticism, 249-260. https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2019.0430

This article explores the complications involved in speaking from a position of seniority and experience in the life and work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It goes beyond the familiar caricatures of Coleridge as a garrulous old man, perpetuated by the... Read More about 'Old Men - and Women - May be Permitted to Speak Long': Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Voice of Experience.