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William Greenslade's Outputs (30)

Race and biology (2016)
Book Chapter

The period 1880-1920 saw the emergence and then the qualified effacing of powerful discourses of racial essentialism and biological determinism: it was a period profoundly influenced, even mesmerized, by the authority of Darwinian science. This chapt... Read More about Race and biology.

Hardy and friendship (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter argues that, as with many writers, the experience of friend and friendship for the poet and novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) is intimately bound up with the development of the faculty of the creative imagination and the pursuit of the w... Read More about Hardy and friendship.

Shakespeare and politics (2011)
Book Chapter

This essay examines the complex ways in which Shakespeare’s plays, and the figure of Shakespeare himself becomes entangled in political argument from the post-Napoleonic years until the early twentieth century, particularly as a source of inspiration... Read More about Shakespeare and politics.

Socialism and radicalism (2007)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the flowering of radical and socialist political cultures at the fin de siècle in which forms of collectivism, as against individualism, gain increasing prominence. The influence of Comtean Positivism, Philosophical Idealism and... Read More about Socialism and radicalism.

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.