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Dr Simon Grimble's Outputs (17)

‘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.

Gaskell’s Manchester (2022)
Book Chapter
Grimble, S. (2022). Gaskell’s Manchester. In J. Tambling (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies (736-741). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_174-1

This short essay argues that in her writings on Manchester, the Victorian novelist, Elizabeth Gaskell, retained a position of ambivalence: she was both dependent on the development of industrial Manchester as a new kind of urban space which she could... Read More about Gaskell’s Manchester.

What Kind of Person Should the Critic Be? (2021)
Book Chapter
Grimble, S. (2021). What Kind of Person Should the Critic Be?. In A. Sridhar, M. A. Hosseini, & D. Attridge (Eds.), The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century (173-191). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71139-9_9

In his essay “On Translating Homer” (1861), Matthew Arnold wrote that “the critic […] should have the finest tact, the nicest moderation, the most free, flexible, and plastic spirit imaginable […].” To our contemporary culture such characterizations... Read More about What Kind of Person Should the Critic Be?.

Brexit and the Democratic Intellect: Papers and poems from a symposium held at Durham University 13th – 14th January 2017 (2017)
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Grimble, S. (2017). Brexit and the Democratic Intellect: Papers and poems from a symposium held at Durham University 13th – 14th January 2017

The debate surrounding Britain’s vote to leave the European Union exposed, among other things, a suspicion of ‘experts.’ How did intellectuals become alienated figures? And how might citizens and academics come together in order to better understand... Read More about Brexit and the Democratic Intellect: Papers and poems from a symposium held at Durham University 13th – 14th January 2017.

Intellectuals and the Politics of Style (2016)
Journal Article
Grimble, S. (2016). Intellectuals and the Politics of Style. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 30(3), 245-257. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-016-9231-9

This article addresses the characteristic styles and modes of self-presentation used by such Victorian public moralists and intellectuals as William Morris, John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold in both their writing and in their appearances as public lectu... Read More about Intellectuals and the Politics of Style.

'Englishness'. (2011)
Book Chapter
Grimble, S. (2011). 'Englishness'. In J. Ed. Harding (Ed.), T.S. Eliot in Context. Cambridge University Press

Landscape, Writing and 'The Condition of England': 1878-1917, Ruskin to Modernism (2004)
Book
Grimble, S. (2004). Landscape, Writing and 'The Condition of England': 1878-1917, Ruskin to Modernism. Edwin Mellen Press

This book contributes to a number of areas of current scholarship: the literary and cultural history of English national identity, both the origins of literary modernism and the countervailing resistance to modernism, the sources of modern environmen... Read More about Landscape, Writing and 'The Condition of England': 1878-1917, Ruskin to Modernism.