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Fluid performances: The circulation of milk in late-nineteenth century fiction and culture (2021)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2021). Fluid performances: The circulation of milk in late-nineteenth century fiction and culture. In Trangressive Appetites: Deviant Food Practices in Victorian Literature and Culture (211-226). Milano: Mimesis/Anglosophia

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.

Foreword (2018)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2018). Foreword. In The Journalistic Career of John Buchan (1875-1940) : A Critical Assessment of Its Context and Significance (iii-vii). Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press

Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle (2005)
Book
Greenslade, W., & Rodgers, . T. (2005). Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle. Routledge

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
Greenslade, W. (2000). Rediscovering Hardy's "Facts" notebook. In The Achievement of Thomas Hardy (171-186). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-65271-6_11

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
Greenslade, W. (2000). Revisiting Edward Aveling. In J. Stokes (Ed.), Eleanor Marx: Life. Work. Contacts (145-161). Aldershot: Routledge

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
Greenslade, W. (2000). "Pan" and the open road. In Outside Modernism: In Pursuit of the English Novel, 1900-1930 (145-161). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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
Gissing, G. (1997). W. Greenslade (Ed.). The Whirlpool. London: Dent/Everyman

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.

Fitness and the Fin de Siècle (1992)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (1992). Fitness and the Fin de Siècle. In Fin De Siècle/Fin Du Globe: Fears and Fantasies of the Late-Nineteenth Century (37-51). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22421-0_3

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.