William Greenslade's Outputs (8)

Guardianship and fellowship: Radicalism and the ecological imagination 1880-1940 (2012)
Book Chapter

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.

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)
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Socialism and radicalism (2007)
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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.

Re-situating Grant Allen: Writing, radicalism and modernity (2005)
Book Chapter

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.