Publications

Our Publications

View a list of key publications produced by English staff:

 

Scott Brewster

Scott Brewster and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, The Routledge Introduction to the American Ghost Story (Routledge, 2024).

Lucie Armitt and Scott Brewster, Gothic Travels through Haunted Landscapes: Climates of Fear (Anthem Press, 2022).

Scott Brewster and Luke Thurston (eds), The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story (Routledge, 2017).

 

Owen Clayton

Owen Clayton, Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: The Literature and Culture of U.S. Transiency 1890-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Winner of the British Association for American Studies Book Award 2024.

Owen Clayton (ed.), Representing Homelessness (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Owen Clayton (ed.), Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America (Tramp Lit Series) (Feral House, 2022).

 

Alice Crossley

Alice Crossley, ‘Odd Age, Old Age, and Doubled Lives: Asynchronicity and Ageing Queerly in Israel Zangwill’s Short Stories’, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 32 (2021).

Alice Crossley, ‘Affirmations of Aging Masculinity in Victorian Fiction: Older Men at the Margins’, The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Aging, ed. by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb and Aagje Swinnen (Palgrave, 2024), pp. 529-549.

Alice Crossley, Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction: George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope (Routledge, 2018).

 

Amy Culley

Siân Adiseshiah, Amy Culley, Jonathon Shears (eds), ‘Narratives of Old Age and Gender: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives’, Journal of the British Academy, 11:2 (2023).

Amy Culley and Anna Fitzer (eds), Editing Women’s Writing 1670-1840 (Routledge, 2017).

Amy Culley, British Women’s Life Writing: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration 1760-1840 (Palgrave, 2014).

 

Laura Gill

Laura Gill, ‘Strange Alteration! The Victorian Milton and a Book Bound in Human Skin’, Milton Quarterly, 55: 3-4 (2022), 171-84.

Laura Gill, ‘Milton’s Christ and Passive Power in Melville and Turner’, The Figure of Christ in the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. by Elizabeth Ludlow (Palgrave, 2020), pp. 69-82.

 

Christopher Marlow

Christopher Marlow, ‘Provincial Shakespeare: Donald Wolfit, Marginality, and The Merry Wives of Windsor’, Critical Survey, 4:32 (2020), 36-50.

Christopher Marlow, Shakespeare and Cultural Materialist Theory (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Christopher Marlow, Performing Masculinity in English University Drama (Routledge, 2013).

 

Kristian Shaw    

Kristian Shaw, Brexlit: British Literature and the European Project (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Kristian Shaw and Peter Sloane (eds), Kazuo Ishiguro: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Manchester University Press, 2023).

Kristian Shaw, Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-First Century Fiction (Palgrave, 2017).

 

Rebecca Styler

Rebecca Styler, The Maternal Image of God in Victorian Literature (Routledge, 2023).

Rebecca Styler (ed.), Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society, Volume 1: Traditions (Routledge, 2020).

Rebecca Styler, Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2011).

 

Emily Timms

Emily Timms, ‘Postcolonial Ageing Studies: Racialization, Resistance, Reimagination’, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film, ed. by Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung, and Raquel Medina (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 225-237.

Emily Timms, ‘“I Could Turn Viper Tomorrow": Challenging Reproductive Futurism in Merle Collins's The Colour of Forgetting’, Literature and Ageing, ed. by Elizabeth Barry with Margery Vibe Skagen (Boydell and Brewer, 2020), pp. 105-27.

Emily Timms, ‘“Everything is a Search for Light”: Indigenous Ageing and the Future of Intergenerational Health and Wellbeing in Patricia Grace’s Chappy’, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writing (Literature, Medicine, and Health), 19.2 (2019), 56-71.

 

Renée Ward

Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Miriam Edlich-Muth, and Renée Ward (eds), The Arthurian World, Routledge Worlds (Routledge, 2022).

Renée Ward, ‘Food, Feasts, and Temperance: The Social Contracts of “mete and drink” in The Tale of Gamelyn’, Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales, ed. by Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo (Routledge, 2021), pp. 30-54.

Renée Ward, ‘Giving Voice to Griselda: Radical Reimaginings of a Medieval Tale’, Studies in Medievalism, 26 (2017), 87-116.

 

Jason Whittaker

Paula García-Ramírez, Beatriz Valverde, Angélica Varandas, Jason Whittaker (eds), Weaving Tales: Anglo-Iberian Encounters on Literatures in English (Routledge, 2023).

Jason Whittaker, Jerusalem: Blake, Parry and the Fight for Englishness (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Jason Whittaker, Divine Images: The Life and Work of William Blake (Reaktion Books, 2021).