Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Zola Effect
(2021)
Journal Article
All Outputs (17)
Fluid performances: The circulation of milk in late-nineteenth century fiction and culture (2021)
Book Chapter
This chapter analyses how the social circulation of milk is performed in realist-naturalist writings of the late nineteenth century. Milk becomes an unalienable property of the nurturing body, a circulating property of instrumental modernity and, at... Read More about Fluid performances: The circulation of milk in late-nineteenth century fiction and culture.
Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings (2020)
Book
Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896) made a critically important contribution to the evolution of the modernist short story in Britain: his stories combine an unrelenting realism with a conscious aestheticizing of their often troubling, bleak subject mat... Read More about Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings.
Foreword (2018)
Book Chapter
Review: The Gissing Journal: A History and Index of the First 50 Years (2017)
Journal Article
Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle (2005)
Book
A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for... Read More about Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle.
Rediscovering Hardy's "Facts" notebook (2000)
Book Chapter
From his early twenties, until his death, Thomas Hardy was an habitual - even obsessive - note-taker. He kept notebooks, some of pocket-size, from early on in his career, only to destroy most of them or leave instructions that the remainder should be... Read More about Rediscovering Hardy's "Facts" notebook.
Revisiting Edward Aveling (2000)
Book Chapter
While the mythologising of nature in British writing at the end of the long nineteenth century has been often regarded as nostalgic, escapist and evasive, this chapter argues that such writing found in the cult of ‘Pan’ and ‘The Open Road’ imaginativ... Read More about Revisiting Edward Aveling.
"Pan" and the open road (2000)
Book Chapter
While the mythologising of nature in British writing at the end of the long nineteenth century has been often regarded as nostalgic, escapist and evasive, this chapter argues that such writing found in the cult of ‘Pan’ and ‘The Open Road’ imaginativ... Read More about "Pan" and the open road.
The Whirlpool (1997)
Book
George Gissing's The Whirlpool (1897) is generally regarded as one of the novelist's most critically significant and successful works in the breadth of its subject matter and depth of characterisation. This edition comprises a critical introduction... Read More about The Whirlpool.
Degeneration, Culture and the Novel 1880-1940 (1994)
Book
Towards the end of the nineteenth century many affluent and educated people, influenced by developments in medical, biological and psychiatric sciences, became convinced that ignorance, insanity and criminality - even homosexuality and hysteria - wer... Read More about Degeneration, Culture and the Novel 1880-1940.
Fitness and the Fin de Siècle (1992)
Book Chapter
In 1901, William Morris’s biographer J. W. Mackail gave a lecture on Morris to the I.L.P. Mackail infused the occasion with a pronounced sense of an ending. There was a feeling abroad, he said, that the nineteenth century had been a failure. Ideals h... Read More about Fitness and the Fin de Siècle.
Women and the disease of civilisation: George Gissing's The Whirlpool (1989)
Journal Article
Edward Carpenter on Jude the Obscure: An unpublished letter (1987)
Journal Article
The power of advertising: Chad Newsome and the meaning of Paris (1982)
Journal Article