All Outputs (25)

Material matters: The surfaces of realist fiction (2022)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2022). Material matters: The surfaces of realist fiction. In S. E. Larsen, S. B. Jørgensen, & M. R. Higonnet (Eds.), Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume II: Pathways through realism (233-269). John Benjamins Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxiii.08jam

The representation of objects is one of the guarantors of a particular kind of literary text being characterized as realist. The mimesis of objects, possessions, and interiors, marveled at by Henry James when writing on Honoré de Balzac, and deplored... Read More about Material matters: The surfaces of realist fiction.

H. G. Wells’s London (2018)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (in press). H. G. Wells’s London. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_74-1

Charles Dickens, Mental Time-Travelling and Autobiographical Memory. (2016)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2016). Charles Dickens, Mental Time-Travelling and Autobiographical Memory. In C. Huguet, & P. Vita (Eds.), Unsettling Dickens: Process, Progress and Change (33-54). Éditions du Sagittaire

Phenomenology and the Charge of Anthropocentrism (2016)
Book Chapter
James, S. P. (2016). Phenomenology and the Charge of Anthropocentrism. In B. Bannon (Ed.), Nature and Experience: Phenomenology and the Environment (43-52). Rowman & Littlefield

'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial (2015)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2015). 'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial. In M. O'Neill, M. Sandy, & S. Wootton (Eds.), The Persistence of Beauty: Victorians to Moderns (45-58). Pickering & Chatto

What might it entail to speak or write in words of beauty, especially of physical beauty? Is it the case that the literary arts can never portray beauty itself su ciently, but only the e ects of beauty (wonder, sexual desire , envy)? If it is admitte... Read More about 'Ugly Meanings in Beautiful Things': Reading the First Wilde Trial.

Q is for Queen: The Reading Nation (2014)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2014). Q is for Queen: The Reading Nation. In S. J. James (Ed.), Books for Boys : literacy, nation and the First World War (6-9). Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University

Afterword (2014)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2014). Afterword. In The time machine by H. G. Wells ; with an introduction by Greg Bear and a new afterword by Simon J. James (119-128). Penguin Group (USA)

Green Managerialism and the Erosion of Meaning (2014)
Book Chapter
James, S. P. (2014). Green Managerialism and the Erosion of Meaning. In M. Drenthen, & J. Keulartz (Eds.), Old world and new world perspectives in environmental philosophy : transatlantic conversations (139-150). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07683-6_9

In this chapter, Simon P. James argues that nature can be harmed, degraded, destroyed, but also restored, preserved or in some other way looked after, but that this also holds true of nature’s meanings. It is in many cases possible to look after or ‘... Read More about Green Managerialism and the Erosion of Meaning.

Island of Memory (2013)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (in press). Island of Memory. In S. J. James (Ed.), Desert Island (10-13). Institute of Advanced Study

Buddhism and Environmental Ethics (2013)
Book Chapter
James, S. P. (2013). Buddhism and Environmental Ethics. In S. M. Emmanuel (Ed.), A companion to Buddhist philosophy (601-612). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118324004.ch39

Conserving Nature's Meanings (2012)
Book Chapter
James, S. P. (2012). Conserving Nature's Meanings. In E. Brady, & P. Phemister (Eds.), Embodied Values and the Environment. Springer Verlag

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

Realism and the Fiction of Modern Life: From Meredith to Forster. (2011)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2011). Realism and the Fiction of Modern Life: From Meredith to Forster. In P. Parrinder, & A. Gasiorek (Eds.), The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940 (87-102). Oxford University Press

H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and the End of Literature. (2011)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2011). H. G. Wells's The Time Machine and the End of Literature. In S. J. James, & N. Saul (Eds.), The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures (113-123). Rodopi

Fin-de-Cycle: Romance and the Real in The Wheels of Chance (2008)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2008). Fin-de-Cycle: Romance and the Real in The Wheels of Chance. In S. McLean (Ed.), H. G. Wells : interdisciplinary essays (34-48). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2008)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2008). The Mystery of Edwin Drood. In D. Paroissien (Ed.), A companion to Charles Dickens (444-451). Blackwell

Environmental and Ecological Philosophy (2005)
Book Chapter
James, S. P. (2005). Environmental and Ecological Philosophy. In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy 2nd ed. (2nd). Oxford University Press

In Public: George Gissing, Newspapers and the City. (2005)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2005). In Public: George Gissing, Newspapers and the City. In J. Spiers (Ed.), Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late-Victorian England (189-188). Palgrave Macmillan

'The Discontents of Everyday Life: Civilization and the Pathology of Masculinity in The Whirlpool' (2005)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2005). 'The Discontents of Everyday Life: Civilization and the Pathology of Masculinity in The Whirlpool'. In M. Ryle, & J. Bourne Taylor (Eds.), George Gissing : voices of the unclassed (93-105). Ashgate Publishing

Pip's counterfeit money: forgery in Great Expectations (2004)
Book Chapter
James, S. J. (2005). Pip's counterfeit money: forgery in Great Expectations. In P. Knight, & J. Long (Eds.), Fakes and forgeries (41-49). Cambridge Scholars