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Northern England (2025)
Book Chapter
Dubois, M. (2025). Northern England. In M. Dubois (Ed.), Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context (32-39). Cambridge University Press

Byron in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature (2024)
Book Chapter
Sandy, M. (2024). Byron in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature. In A. Rawes, & J. Shears (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron (516-530). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198808800.013.36

This chapter explores how many twentieth- and twenty-first century poets and novelists self-consciously respond to Byron. The first and second sections focus, respectively, on twentieth-century poetic and prose responses to Byron. A darkly existentia... Read More about Byron in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature.

John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification (2024)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2024). John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification. In M. Demson, & R. Hewitt (Eds.), Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions (238-257). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

This paper offers a revised overview of the now distortedly over-familiar topic of John Clare and enclosure, qualifying the emerging critical truism that this human injustice was also a fierce assault on biodiversity, one which can be immediately ass... Read More about John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification.

The Wonders of Historiography: The Medieval Latin Alexander Narratives and Manuscript Contexts of Justin, Orosius, and the Historia de Preliis (2024)
Book Chapter
Bridges, V. (2024). The Wonders of Historiography: The Medieval Latin Alexander Narratives and Manuscript Contexts of Justin, Orosius, and the Historia de Preliis. In F. Piccioni, E. Poddighe, & T. Pontillo (Eds.), La ricezione dell’ultimo Alessandro: Mirabilia e violenza al di qua e al di là dell’Indo (319-340). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111427614-015

'Introduction: Literature, Propaganda and the Intellectual' (2024)
Book Chapter
Smith, J., Lopez, B., & Woodward, G. (2024). 'Introduction: Literature, Propaganda and the Intellectual'. In J. Smith, B. Lopez, & G. Woodward (Eds.), British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and Beyond. Bloomsbury

From Philosopher's Stone to Phosphorus: Robert Boyle's Illuminating Experiments (2024)
Book Chapter
Swann, E. (2024). From Philosopher's Stone to Phosphorus: Robert Boyle's Illuminating Experiments. In S. Mukherji, & E. L. Swann (Eds.), The Poesy of Scientia in Early Modern England (81-107). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51800-3_4

This essay explores Robert Boyle’s efforts to create, and his experimental interactions with, a range of luminous substances—notably phosphorus, which he associated with the philosopher’s stone. For Boyle, phosphorus was alight with spiritual signifi... Read More about From Philosopher's Stone to Phosphorus: Robert Boyle's Illuminating Experiments.

Shakespeare/Play/Dance (2024)
Book Chapter
Ravelhofer, B. (2024). Shakespeare/Play/Dance. In E. Whipday (Ed.), Shakespeare/Play: Contemporary Readings in Playing, Playmaking and Performance. Bloomsbury

On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique (2024)
Book Chapter
Sheils, B. (2024). On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique. In C. I. Armstrong, A. Paterson, & T. Walker (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to W.B. Yeats and the Arts. Edinburgh University Press

In mid-1936, while writing ‘Lapis Lazuli’, W. B. Yeats was finalising his controversial selections for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936). He was also pronouncing upon a significant generational trend towards ‘difficult’ poetry. As he suggested i... Read More about On The Scale Of Art And The Aesthetics Of Difficulty- Rereading 'Lapis Lazuli' As Ecological Critique.

‘The Disabled Body as Performance: Disabled Performers in the Records of Early English Drama’ (2024)
Book Chapter
Chambers, M. (2024). ‘The Disabled Body as Performance: Disabled Performers in the Records of Early English Drama’. In M. Twycross, S. Carpenter, E. Dutton, & G. Kipling (Eds.), Medieval English Theatre 45 (102-125). Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11589157.9

The saints’ healing of an infirmed limb or organ is a recurrent theme in hagiographic literature—particularly from the earlier medieval period. In Ælfric’s account of the life of St. Swithin of Winchester, for instance, he reports that the saint’s sh... Read More about ‘The Disabled Body as Performance: Disabled Performers in the Records of Early English Drama’.

Eco-Deconstruction, or (Post)Humanism of the Other (Nonhuman) (2024)
Book Chapter
Lynes, P. (2024). Eco-Deconstruction, or (Post)Humanism of the Other (Nonhuman). In C. Tan, & İ. Serdar Altaç (Eds.), Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought. Lexington Books

‘The Whole Man’: Morris’s Public Lectures (2024)
Book Chapter
Grimble, S. (2024). ‘The Whole Man’: Morris’s Public Lectures. In M. Waithe (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to William Morris (111-121). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108939942.012

This chapter describes both the centrality of Morris’s work as a public lecturer and his feelings of ambivalence about speaking out in this way. It moves from Raymond Williams’s characterisation of the lectures as where Morris spoke as a ‘whole man’... Read More about ‘The Whole Man’: Morris’s Public Lectures.