Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Zola Effect
(2021)
Journal Article
Greenslade, W. (2021). Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Zola Effect. Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, 63(1), 25-35
All Outputs (17)
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/AnglosophiaThis 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
Greenslade, W. (2020). E. Ettorre (Ed.). Hubert Crackanthorpe: Selected Writings. Cambridge: MHRA. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18zhfbcHubert 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
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
Review: The Gissing Journal: A History and Index of the First 50 Years (2017)
Journal Article
Greenslade, W. (2017). Review: The Gissing Journal: A History and Index of the First 50 Years. Gissing Journal, 51(3), 55-58
Review: George Gissing and the Woman Question: Convention and Dissent, eds. Christine Huguet and Simon J. James. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013 (2014)
Journal Article
Greenslade, W. (2014). Review: George Gissing and the Woman Question: Convention and Dissent, eds. Christine Huguet and Simon J. James. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Gissing Journal, 50(3), 15-27
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. RoutledgeA 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.
Writing against himself: Gissing and the lure of modernity in 'in the year of jubilee' (2001)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2001). Writing against himself: Gissing and the lure of modernity in 'in the year of jubilee'. In A Garland For Gissing (271-277). Amsterdam: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004487048_027
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_11From 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: RoutledgeWhile 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 MacmillanWhile 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/EverymanGeorge 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
Greenslade, W. (1994). Degeneration, Culture and the Novel 1880-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University PressTowards 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
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_3In 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
Greenslade, W. (1989). Women and the disease of civilisation: George Gissing's The Whirlpool. Victorian Studies, 32(4), 507-523
Edward Carpenter on Jude the Obscure: An unpublished letter (1987)
Journal Article
Greenslade, W. (1987). Edward Carpenter on Jude the Obscure: An unpublished letter. English Language Notes, 24(1), 37-38
The power of advertising: Chad Newsome and the meaning of Paris (1982)
Journal Article
Greenslade, W. (1982). The power of advertising: Chad Newsome and the meaning of Paris. ELH: English Literary History, 49(3), 99-122