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Muriel Spark’s ‘informed air’: the auditory imagination and the voices of fiction (2018)
Journal Article
Waugh, P. (2018). Muriel Spark’s ‘informed air’: the auditory imagination and the voices of fiction. Textual Practice, 32(9), 1633-1658. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2018.1533171

‘Events occur in my mind’, Spark has written, ‘and I record them’. What does it mean to hear something that isn’t there? Hearing inner speech or sounds, not as silent thoughts but as quasi-perceptual events in the world, confounds settled distinction... Read More about Muriel Spark’s ‘informed air’: the auditory imagination and the voices of fiction.

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

The Novel as Therapy: Ministrations of Voice in an Age of Risk (2015)
Journal Article
Waugh, P. (2015). The Novel as Therapy: Ministrations of Voice in an Age of Risk. Journal of the British Academy, 3, 35-68. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/003.035

Examining relations between 'therapy culture' and the 'risk society', this essay suggests that the novel developed to offer a powerful workout for the kinds of socio-cognitive capacities and gratifications required by the complex and 'emergent' cultu... Read More about The Novel as Therapy: Ministrations of Voice in an Age of Risk.

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.

"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

'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

Introduction: The Evolution of Literature. (2011)
Book Chapter
Saul, N., & James, S. J. (2011). Introduction: The Evolution of Literature. In N. Saul, & S. J. James (Eds.), The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures (9-18). Rodopi

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