Centre for Studies in Literature (CSL)

Recent Publications

The following texts have recently been published by members of the CSL: 

2011

Christine Berberich, "Harry Potter and the Idea of the Gentleman as Hero", in Katrin Berndt & Lena Steveker (eds), Heroism in the Harry Potter Series (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011), 141—57.

Páraic Finnerty, '"Dreamed of your meeting Tennyson in Ticknor and Fields -": A Transatlantic Encounter with Britain's Poet Laureate', Emily Dickinson Journal, Spring 2011.

Páraic Finnerty, '"Both are alike; and both alike we like": Sovereignty and Amity in Shakespeare's King John', Literature and History, Spring 2011.

Mark Frost, 'The Everyday Marvels of Rust and Moss: John Ruskin and the ecology of the mundane', Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, Spring 2011.

Mark Frost, 'A Vital Truth: Ruskin, Science and Dynamic Materiality', Journal of Victorian Literature and Culture, 39.2, 2011.

Ross Hair, Ronald Johnson's Modernist Collage Poetry. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Elodie Rousselot, 'Re-writing Myth, Femininity, and Violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad', in Sanja Bahun-Radunovic & V.G. Julie Rajan (eds), Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011)

2010

Christine Berberich, "Writing England, Finding the Self: Jonathan Raban and the Travelogue as Identity Tool", in Adeline Johns-Putra & Catherine Brace (eds.), Processes: Landscape and Text (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010), 267—83.

Christine Berberich, "‘Isn’t this worth fighting for?’? World War I and the Uses of the Pastoral Tradition", in Petra Rau (ed.), Bodies-at-War: Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 26—45.

Ben Dew (Ed.), Tea and Politics: the Boston Tea Party (1773) and the Commutation Act (1784). London: Pickering and Chatto, 2010.

Páraic Finnerty, 'The Englishman in America: Masculinity in Love and Death on Long Island and Father of Frankenstein', Genders, Spring 2010.

Mark Frost, '"The Guilty Ship": Ruskin, Turner, and Dabydeen', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 45:3, 2010.

Páraic Finnerty, "Killer Boys: Male Friendship and Criminality in The Butcher Boy, Elephant and Boy A." Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film. Eds. B. Nicol, P. Pulham and E. McNulty. London: Continuum Books 2010 141-154.

Ross Hair, Minting the Sun: A New Selection of Poems by Ted Walker. [Co-edited with Diana Barsham]. Chichester: University of Chichester, 2010.

Bran Nicol, 'Patricia Highsmith'. In The Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction, ed. by Charles Rzepka and Lee Horsley. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.

Bran Nicol, 'Murdoch's Mannered realism: Metafiction, Morality and the Post-War Novel'. In Iris Murdoch and Morality, ed. by Anne Rowe and Avril Horner. London: Palgrave, 2010.

Christopher Pittard, 'From Sensation to the Strand: Nineteenth-Century Popular Crime Fiction'. In The Blackwell Companion to Crime Fiction, ed. by Charles Rzepka and Lee Horsley. Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.

Petra Rau (Ed.), Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature: Bodies-at-War. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010.

Elodie Rousselot, "Turmoil, Trauma and Mourning in Jane Urquhart's The Whirlpool". Neo-Victorian Tropes of Trauma. Eds. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010.

Elodie Rousselot, Re-Writing Women into Canadian History: Margaret Atwood and Anne Hébert. Québec: Éditions de L'instant même, 2010.

Elodie Rousselot, "Re-Writing Myth, Femininity and Violence in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad." Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras. Ed. Sanja Bahun-Radunovi and V.G. Julie Rajan. Farnham: Ashgate, 2010.

Elodie Rousselot, "Historical Fiction." Encyclopaedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Ed. Brian Shaffer. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Elodie Rousselot, "Re-Writing Women's Destinies in Anne Hébert's La cage and L'île de la Demoiselle." Anne Hébert: Essays On Her Work. Ed. Lee Skallerup. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2010.

2009

Christine Berberich, "A Peculiarly English Idiosyncrasy? Julian Barnes’s Use of Lists in England England," ABC. American, British and Canadian Studies 13 (Dec 2009): 75—87.

Christine Berberich, "From Glory to Wasteland: Rediscovering the Country House in Twentieth-Century Literature", in Stephen Barfield, Philip Tew & David James (eds), New Version of Pastoral (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009), 44—57.

Christine Berberich, "Whose Englishness is it anyway? James’ Hawes’ post-modern England(s)," in Floriane Reviron-Piégay (ed.), Englishness Revisited (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), 389—400.

Páraic Finnerty, "Rival Italies: Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin and Henry James." Prose Studies 31.2 (2009):109-121.

Bran Nicol, The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Petra Rau, English Modernism, National Identity and the Germans, 1890-1950. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.