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The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety (2024)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (2024). The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety. Modernism/modernity, 31(1), 23-44. https://doi.org/10.1353/mod.2024.a935443

The focus of this article is the world's first mathematical weather forecast by Lewis Fry Richardson, published in 1922. In a counter-archival and anti-historical move, Richardson's work argues for the "disaggregation" of the future from the past. Th... Read More about The Meteorological Device: Literary Modernism, the Daily Weather Forecast and the Productions of Anxiety.

Style Interminable: the autofictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner (2022)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (2022). Style Interminable: the autofictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner. Textual Practice, 36(4), 518-541. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2055284

Style emerged into discursive prominence in nineteenth-century Europe at the same time as the classical symptoms of hysteria were given new impetus by neurologists and psychoanalysts. Later, when the Post-War architecture of late capitalism seemed to... Read More about Style Interminable: the autofictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner.

Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style (2022)
Journal Article
Robinson, R., & Sheils, B. (2022). Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style. Textual Practice, 36(4), 473-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510

This essay sets the parameters of this special issue on the contemporary problem of style. Noting that the critical term style has returned to discursive prominence in recent years, the introduction explores the peculiarity of its status in literary... Read More about Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style.

The Violation of Style: Englishness in Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose Novels (2015)
Journal Article
Robinson, R., & Sheils, B. (2016). The Violation of Style: Englishness in Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose Novels. Textual Practice, 30(4), 735-756. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2015.1059030

This article explores the meaningfulness of ‘style’ as a critical concept in contemporary English literary studies. Despite appearing to have fallen out of fashion with the rise of theory in the 1970s, style remains closely linked to canons of histor... Read More about The Violation of Style: Englishness in Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose Novels.

Poetry in the Modern State: the example of W.B. Yeats's 'Late Style' and 'New Fanaticism' (2014)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (2014). Poetry in the Modern State: the example of W.B. Yeats's 'Late Style' and 'New Fanaticism'. New Literary History, 45(3), 483-505. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2014.0022

In this article I propose to connect Yeats’s “new fanaticism” and his “late style”—a term I have borrowed from Edward Said to describe the preposterous self-consciousness of the poet’s old age. There are two major aspects to my argument: first, that... Read More about Poetry in the Modern State: the example of W.B. Yeats's 'Late Style' and 'New Fanaticism'.