All Outputs (53)

Discipline or Perish: English at the Tipping Point and Styles of Thinking in the Twenty-first Century. (2016)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2016). Discipline or Perish: English at the Tipping Point and Styles of Thinking in the Twenty-first Century. In A. Hewings, L. Prescott, & P. Seargeant (Eds.), Futures for English Studies: Teaching Language, Literature and Creative Writing in Higher Education (19-38). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-43180-6_3

English has always been a Janus-faced discipline. The Roman God of transition, sudden or radical change and transformation, Janus is emblematised by thresholds, doorways, entrances and exits, travel and trade, hybridity and the transcultural. Likewis... Read More about Discipline or Perish: English at the Tipping Point and Styles of Thinking in the Twenty-first Century..

Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis through the Novel. (2016)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2016). Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis through the Novel. In S. Groes (Ed.), Memory in the Twenty First Century: New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences (316-324). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_38

A novelist might be thought of as a person who regularly speaks with the dead and the departed: as Hilary Mantel has observed, ‘only the medium and the writer are licensed to sit in a room by themselves with a whole crowd of imaginary people, listeni... Read More about Memory and Voices: Challenging Psychiatric Diagnosis through the Novel..

Precarious Voices: Moderns, Moods, and Moving Epochs. (2016)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2016). Precarious Voices: Moderns, Moods, and Moving Epochs. In D. Bradshaw, L. Marcus, & R. Roach (Eds.), Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity (191-216). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198714170.003.0014

This chapter takes up questions of ‘‘moods and voices’ in the modern British novel. In its focus on ‘moving epochs’ it also offers a critique of literary periodization and of approaches to modernist literature and culture which have rendered the rich... Read More about Precarious Voices: Moderns, Moods, and Moving Epochs..

Afterword: Evidence and Experiment (2016)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2016). Afterword: Evidence and Experiment. In A. Whitehead, A. Woods, S. Atkinson, J. Macnaughton, & J. Richards (Eds.), The Edinburgh companion to the critical medical humanities (153-160). Edinburgh University Press

Beauty Rewrites Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury (2015)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2015). Beauty Rewrites Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury. In C. Saunders, J. Macnaughton, & D. Fuller (Eds.), The recovery of beauty : arts, culture, medicine (108-128). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741_7

The question, ‘what was Bloomsbury’, elicits two responses: a catalogue of the people, the place, the moment; but more compelling, and more elusive, the evocation of an ethos. Bloomsbury is seen to have rein-vented beauty and the beautiful soul. If t... Read More about Beauty Rewrites Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury.

The Naturalistic Turn, the Syndrome, and the Rise of the Neo-Phenomenological Novel. (2013)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2013). The Naturalistic Turn, the Syndrome, and the Rise of the Neo-Phenomenological Novel. In J. Peacock, & T. Lustig (Eds.), Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome Syndrome (17-34). Routledge

Thinking in Literature: modernism and contemporary neuroscience (2012)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2012). Thinking in Literature: modernism and contemporary neuroscience. In D. James (Ed.), The Legacies of Modernism: Historicising Postwar and Contemporary Fiction (73-95). Cambridge University Press

"Did I not banish the soul?" Thinking Otherwise, Woolf-wise. (2012)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2012). "Did I not banish the soul?" Thinking Otherwise, Woolf-wise. In D. Ryan, & S. Bolaki (Eds.), Contradictory Woolf: Selected Papers from the Twenty-First Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf (23-42). International Virgina Woolf Society, Clemson University Press

The Novel amid other Discourses. (2012)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2012). The Novel amid other Discourses. In R. L. Caserio, & C. Hawes (Eds.), The Cambridge History of the English Novel (661-677). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521194952.043

Iris Murdoch and the Two Cultures: Science, Philosophy and the Novel (2012)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2012). Iris Murdoch and the Two Cultures: Science, Philosophy and the Novel. In A. Rowe, & A. Horner (Eds.), Irish Murdoch: Texts and Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan

'Kazuo Ishiguro’s Not-Too-Late Modernism'. (2011)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2011). 'Kazuo Ishiguro’s Not-Too-Late Modernism'. In S. Groes, & B. Lewis (Eds.), Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions (13-30). Palgrave Macmillan

Legacies: from literary criticism to literary theory (2011)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2011). Legacies: from literary criticism to literary theory. In J. Harding (Ed.), T. S. Eliot in Context (381-394). Cambridge University Press

Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization and Psychosis (2010)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2010). Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization and Psychosis. In D. Herman (Ed.), Muriel Spark: Twenty First Century Perspectives (63-93). University of John Hopkins Press

Intellectual History and Twentieth-Century Fiction (2010)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2010). Intellectual History and Twentieth-Century Fiction. In R. caseiro (Ed.), The Cambridge History of the Novel. CUP

Contemporary British Fiction (2010)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2010). Contemporary British Fiction. In M. Higgins, C. Smith, & J. Corner (Eds.), Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture (115-137). Cambridge University Press

Muriel Spark: the secular and the sacred (2010)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2010). Muriel Spark: the secular and the sacred. In D. Herman (Ed.), Muriel Spark: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives. Johns Hopkins University Press

Writing the Body in Modernism and Postmodernism (2009)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2009). Writing the Body in Modernism and Postmodernism. In J. MacNaughton, U. Maude, & C. Saunders (Eds.), The Body and the Arts (131-148). Palgrave Macmillan

Critical Theory and the Novel (2009)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2009). Critical Theory and the Novel. In B. W. Shaffer (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction (part of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory). John Wiley & Sons Ltd Wiley-Blackwell

Empathy, Affect and the Cosmopolitan in the Novels of Ishiguro (2009)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2009). Empathy, Affect and the Cosmopolitan in the Novels of Ishiguro. In S. Groes (Ed.), Kazuo Ishiguro and the International Novel

The Historical Context of Post-War British Literature (2009)
Book Chapter
Waugh, P. (2009). The Historical Context of Post-War British Literature. In K. Cockin, & J. Morrison (Eds.), The Post-War British Literature Handbook (35-37). Continuum