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Department of English

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Decolonizing Literature

Anna Bernard

Radical Secrecy: The Ends of Transparency in Datafied America

Clare Birchall

Wordsworth and the Enlightenment Idea of Pleasure

Rowan Boyson

Balloon Madness: Flights of Imagination in Britain, 1783-1786

Clare Brant

Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

Adelene Buckland

Exoteric Modernisms: Progressive Era Realism and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Michael Collins

Mid-Century Romance: Modernism, Socialist Culture, and the Historical Novel

John Connor

Styles of Seriousness

Steve Connor

Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature

Hannah Crawforth

Visions and Ruins: Cultural Memory and the Untimely Middle Ages

Joshua Davies

Homing: On Pigeons, dwellings, and why we return

Jon Day

The Microeconomic Mode: Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Popular Aesthetics

Jane Elliott

Look! We Have Come Through! Living with D. H. Lawrence

Lara Feigel

The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value

Sebastian Franklin

The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

Edmund Gordon

Choreomania: Dance and Disorder

Kélina Gotman

William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England: Radicalism and the Fourth Estate, 1792-1835

James Grande

Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist

Clara Jones

Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature: The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole

Emrys Jones

Sonnets for Albert

Anthony Joseph

Partition’s Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971 and Modern South Asia

Ananya Kabir

MS Junius and its Poetry

Carl Kears

Irish London: A Cultural History 1850-1916

Richard Kirkland

Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works

John Lavagnino

Northern Ireland and the Politics of Boredom: Conflict, Capital and Culture

George Legg

Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Sarah Lewis

The Norton Shakespeare, 3E

Gordon McMullan

Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India

Javed Majeed

American Experimental Poetry and Democratic Thought

Alan Marshall

Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men

Lucy Munro

Scripture and Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Brian Murray

Perceiving Pain in African Literature

Zoe Norridge

Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self – A Biography

Ruvani Ranasinha

The Dark Theatre: A Book About Loss

Alan Read

Living in History: Poetry in Britain, 1945-1979

Luke Roberts

Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel: Extreme Measures

Aaron Rosenberg

Imagining the Pagan in Late Medieval England

Sarah Salih

Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry and Culture, 1640-1680

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

John Donne and the Conway Papers: Patronage and Manuscript Circulation in the Early Seventeenth Century

Daniel Starza Smith

Modernist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945

Anna Snaith

Emergent Worlds: Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Edward Sugden

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Vol. VI: Journalism I

Mark Turner

Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment

Neil Vickers

Chaucer’s Scribes: London Textual Production, 1384-1482

Lawrence Warner

The Young Accomplice

Benjamin Wood

J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style

Jarad Zimbler

The Diseased Brain and the Failing Mind: Dementia in Science, Medicine and Literature of the Long Twentieth Century

Martina Zimmermann

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