Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Zola Effect
(2021)
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William Greenslade's Outputs (30)
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)
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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
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.
Naturalism and decadence: The case of Hubert Crackanthorpe (2013)
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This chapter examines the conjunctions between naturalist poetics and decadent sensibility in late nineteenth-century British fiction. It examines how the highly influential yet aesthetically problematic reach of naturalism became entangled in debate... Read More about Naturalism and decadence: The case of Hubert Crackanthorpe.
Hardy and friendship (2013)
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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.
Guardianship and fellowship: Radicalism and the ecological imagination 1880-1940 (2012)
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This essay examines the interplay between strands of ecological thinking and radical politics in Britain between 1880 and 1940, focussing on the notion of guardianship - as opposed to mastery - of the earth. An efflorescence of political-ecological t... Read More about Guardianship and fellowship: Radicalism and the ecological imagination 1880-1940.
Shakespeare and politics (2011)
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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.
"Out of the way places": Exploring remoteness in Hardy's fiction (2010)
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Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England' (2010)
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This chapter situates three major exponents of provincial fiction, Thomas Hardy, ‘Mark Rutherford’ and Arnold Bennett, in relation to ideas about provincialism, and changes in the relationship between the metropolitan centre and provincial and region... Read More about Provincial Fiction and the Decline of 'Puritan England'.
Reading matter and the matter of reading in Gissing’s fiction (2010)
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This chapter revisits George Gissing’s handling of reading practices within the realist frame of his practice as a novelist to show the variety of reality effects linked to reading matter and the reading subject – the choice of books, their location... Read More about Reading matter and the matter of reading in Gissing’s fiction.
Thomas Hardy’s notebooks (2009)
Book Chapter
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.
Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle (2005)
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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.
Re-situating Grant Allen: Writing, radicalism and modernity (2005)
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This 10,000-word introductory chapter is the first essay in the collection Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle, edited by William Greenslade and Terence Rodgers. It seeks to place Grant Allen's polymathic achievement -... Read More about Re-situating Grant Allen: Writing, radicalism and modernity.
Thomas Hardy's 'Facts' Notebook: A Critical Edition (2004)
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This volume is published in Ashgate's Nineteenth-Century Series, (general editors Joanne Shattock and Vincent Newey). The work towards this edition involved the transcription of the original 221pp. manuscript, which was written in three hands, that o... Read More about Thomas Hardy's 'Facts' Notebook: A Critical Edition.
'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling (2002)
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This chapter traces the motif of the financial crash in realist novels by Dickens, Trollope and Eliot in which the inherent irrationality of capitalist relations is revealed within a broadly explicable ethical universe. By the end of the century, in... Read More about 'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling.
Rediscovering Hardy's "Facts" notebook (2000)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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The power of advertising: Chad Newsome and the meaning of Paris (1982)
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