Recent Publications
Recent publications from staff in the Department
Bas Aarts: The Oxford Handbook of English Grammar, edited with Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova (Oxford University Press, 2020); The Handbook of English Linguistics, second edition, edited with Lars Hinrichs and April McMahon (Wiley, 2021).
Juliette Atkinson: The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot, co-edited with Elisha Cohn (Oxford University Press, 2025); ‘George Eliot’s Journals’, in The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot (Oxford University Press, 2025); George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Matthew Beaumont: Lev Shestov: Philosopher of the Sleepless Night (Bloomsbury, 2020); How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body (Verso, 2024).
Lara Choksey: Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).
Paul Davis (ed.), Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Dennis Duncan: Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure (Allen Lane, 2021).
Mark Ford: Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2023).
Linda Freedman: The Myth of the Fall in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Oxford University Press, 2025).
Helen Hackett: The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty (Yale University Press, 2022).
Susan Irvine: The Anonymous Old English Homily: Sources, Composition, and Variation, co-edited with Winifried Rudolpf (Brill, 2020).
Julia Jordan: Late Modernism and the Avant-Garde British Novel: Oblique Strategies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
John Mullan: The Artful Dickens (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Anthony Ossa-Richardson: A History of Ambiguity (Princeton, 2019).
Alison Shell: Anglican Women Novelists: From Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James (T and T Clark Publishers, June 2019) co-edited with Judith Maltby.
Xine Yao: Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke University Press 2021) in the influential Perverse Modernities series edited by J Halberstam and Lisa Lowe.