British Literature

Let's Dance: The Line of Beauty and the Revenant Figure of Thatcher

by Kim Duff

Fra i libri dell’antiquario: leggendo i romanzi di Sir Walter Scott, “Misinta. Rivista di bibliofilia e cultura”, dicembre 2011, pp. 19-22

by Simone Signaroli

Some notes on antiquarians and old books in Scott's novels (to say nothing of the dogs): Waverley, Guy Mannering, The... more Some notes on antiquarians and old books in Scott's novels (to say nothing of the dogs): Waverley, Guy Mannering, The Antiquary.

Objects of Satire and Severity in Pope’s Dunciad

by Joel Harrison

War and the Liminal Space: Situating The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the Twentieth Century Narrative of Trauma and Survival

by Nanette Norris

Forthcoming in C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia Casebook, ed. Lance E. Weldy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

“Spells Out The Word of Itself, and Then Dispelling Itself”: The Chaotics of Memory and The Ghost of the Novel in Jeff Noon’s Falling out of Cars

by Andrew Wenaus

Forthcoming: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

This article is a study of British author Jeff Noon’s most recent novel Falling out of Cars (2002) as a literary... more This article is a study of British author Jeff Noon’s most recent novel Falling out of Cars (2002) as a literary experiment engaged in raising the ghost of the modern novel, long hailed as dead.  Here, Noon samples canonic literature then transforms, manipulates, and reconfigures it in much the same way a message is transformed when being passed through a communication circuit. The result is a kind of poetic prose Noon terms “metamorphiction”: an elegant experimental mode of fantasy in which signs mutate within certain systemic parameters.  In metamorphiction, the textual past literally haunts the textual present.  This formal experiment is mirrored in the content: the novel concerns a middle aged woman mourning the death of her daughter.  Ultimately, Falling out of Cars is both a virtuosic piece of fantastic fiction and a serious meditation on the contemporary state of the novel.     

"Romantic Drama." Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literary History. Oxford University Press, 2006.

by Michael Gamer

Tolkien and Thomas: Examining the Relationship between St Thomas Aquinas and J.R.R. Tolkien

by Amber Lee Baker

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“The National Tale from Ireland to French Canada: Putting Generic Incentive Into a New Perspective,” in Jason King (ed.), “Ireland and Canada,” special issue of Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 31.1 (Spring 2005): 31-45.

by Andrea Cabajsky

“Novel Reading and Women's Writing in the Romantic Period: The Modern Romances of Laure Conan and Maria Edgeworth,” in Michael Kenneally, et. al. (eds.), “Ireland and Quebec,” special issue of Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 33.1 (“Ireland and Quebec”; Spring 2007): 67-74.

by Andrea Cabajsky

Herald of Hybridity: The Emancipation of Difference in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia

by Berthold Schoene

Cosmo-Kitsch vs. Cosmopoetics

by Berthold Schoene

Forthcoming in ‘New British Writing’ special journal issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, ed. by P. Waugh and J. Hodgson (Dalkey Archive Press, 2012).

Baffled Hopes and Bad Habits: Men, Marriage and Conformity in Queer Theory and Gay Representation

by Berthold Schoene

in Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. by S. Horlacher (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012), pp. 209-18.

Twenty-First-Century Fiction

by Berthold Schoene

in The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume VII: British and Irish Fiction since 1940, ed. by P. Boxall and B. Cheyette (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, forthcoming).

Tour du Monde: David Mitchell's Ghostwritten and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

by Berthold Schoene

Twentieth-Century Burns Scholar: J. DeLancey Ferguson.

by Corey E. Andrews

The Burns Chronicle (Winter 2011): 9-12.

This essay presents a critical appreciation of the work of J. DeLancey Ferguson, a noted Burns critic of the twentieth... more This essay presents a critical appreciation of the work of J. DeLancey Ferguson, a noted Burns critic of the twentieth century.

Unraveling the Curtain: Subversive Folds, Cleland's Memoirs, and the Sublime in Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Le Verrou," Rutgers Art Review 25 (2010): 43-62.

by Danielle Lenhard

Does the angle between two walls have a happy ending? New Worlds: Britain’s ‘New SF’ 1967-1970

by Carol Huston

The following was published in Corridor8 Journal of Contemporary Art & Writing #2, 2011 www.corridor8.co.uk

Carol Huston charts the artistic development and legacy of one of the UK’s most significant publications, from its... more Carol Huston charts the artistic development and legacy of one of the UK’s most significant publications, from its inception as a radical journal trampling down traditional boundaries between art and writing, to its legacy as the publisher of the most enduring of new British and American writing talent.

Paradox and Improvement: Literary Nationalism and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Club Poetry

by Corey E. Andrews

Ph.D. Dissertation. Ohio University, 2000.

Men of Feeling: Harley, Sindall, Zeluco, and Robert Burns.

by Corey E. Andrews

The Eighteenth-Century Novel 8 (2011): 187-226.

Accounts of Robert Burns's reading are well-documented in his correspondence, where he frequently attests to his... more Accounts of Robert Burns's reading are well-documented in his correspondence, where he frequently attests to his enjoyment of three books in particular: John Moore's Zeluco and Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling and The Man of the World. These three Scottish novels recount the lives of vividly-imagined men whose actions affect those around them in dramatic fashion. Zeluco lies, deceives, and ultimately murders his lovers and family; the “Man of the World” Sindall behaves similarly, threatening the well-being of an innocent, virtuous family. At the other end of the spectrum, Harley (the lead of The Man of Feeling) weeps and emotes in vignette-like encounters with various scenes of suffering. Each of these characters holds clues to the exceedingly popular model of masculinity represented by the writing and reputation of Robert Burns. This essay examines the templates of masculinity embodied by Zeluco, Sindall, and Harley, in order to determine how and why they commanded such an influence on Burns's imagination. The characters' relation to late eighteenth-century ideals of politeness is also examined, in addition to the novels’ engagement with sentimental discourse. The essay offers an analysis of the combined influences of these three "men of feeling" on Burns, his writing, and his posthumous reputation.

“Incorporating Technology, Industrializing Subjectivity.” Review of Nicholas Daly’s Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000 (New York: Cambridge U P, 2004).

by Brandon Jernigan