English Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of English Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Interplay of Dominant Empiricism and Residual Cartesianism in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance5
Gender Space and Collaboration Politics: Christine Longford’s The Furies (1933)4
British Battles 493–937: Mount Badon to Brunanburh4
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture4
Geographies of Memory: Paula Hawkins’s Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning4
Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries3
Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper3
Rethinking the Red Sea in the Old English Exodus3
Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester3
Embracing Otherness: The Role of Nostalgia in Bicultural Identity Formation in How the García Girls Lost Their Accents , Dreaming in Cuban 3
Writing Orality: Australian Aboriginal Voices in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria3
The Thunderstorm of Repetition in the Works of Max Porter2
“Hang Loose”: The Ethos and Influence of Oceanfrog Frazer in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree2
Shakespeare, Dramatic Poetry and Value2
“Third Space”, Cultural Translation and Linguistic Hospitality in Sinéad Morrissey’s Poetry2
“Born Yesterday”: Philip Larkin and the Denial of Childhood2
Deconstructing the Female Antagonist of the Coronation Scandal in B’sVita Dunstani2
List of reviewers for English Studies 20212
Narrating Difficult Histories: Interwar Border Crossing in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930) and Christopher Isherwood’s Down There on a Visit (1962)2
Gower’s Quatrains: Language, Rhyme, Occasion2
The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet , by Leonard Neidorf, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2022. xiii + 197 pp., 2
“I Take it You’ve Read Every Book on the Shelves?” Demonstrating Taste and Class Through Bookshelves in the Time of COVID2
Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England , by Daniel Blank, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022
Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland2
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 9: 1939-19412
Coming Back Down to Earth: The Novel and the Human Condition in the Anthropocene1
Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse1
Small World: Ireland, 1798–20181
“[E]verything that is to be Made Whole Must First be Broken”: Religion, Metaphor and Narrative Alchemy in Hilary Mantel's Fludd (1989)1
Facing Two Ways Syntactically: On the Grammar and Use of Promise and Threaten in Three Regional Varieties1
Bending Toward Justice: Moral Failure, Tragic Recognition, and Confession in Cormac McCarthy’s The Stonemason1
The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics1
Before Utopia: The Making of Thomas More’s Mind1
The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350–15001
A Curator in the House of Memory: Restoration, Implication and the Post-Conflict Novel in Aminatta Forna’s The Hired Man1
Women and Crowds in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Harkness1
Revisiting the Pansies Notebook: New Approaches to D. H. Lawrence's Late Archives1
One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field1
Blood and Footprints: Traces of Embodiment in Jude the Obscure and The Woman in White1
Order out of Chaos: The Orthographic Standardisation of full and - ful1
Making Light of Grave Matters: Humour in Edith Eaton’s Works1
The Tramp in British Literature, 1850–1950 The Tramp in British Literature, 1850–1950 , by Luke Lewin Davies, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 344 pp., €119.89(hardcover)1
Modernism's Book of Scraps: Worldmaking and the Anthology as Medium in the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers1
Material Ethics in Trans-corporeal Space: A Study of Alejandro Morales’s The Rag Doll Plagues1
Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer1
Irish Women Writers and Their (Trans)National Networks: Making and Translating Local Colour Literature1
Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama1
“All that I Am Craving Is the Talk”: Collaboration, Translation and Lady Gregory’s Workhouse Ward1
A “Phantom Pain”: The Insidious Trauma of Migration in Fadia Faqir’s My Name is Salma1
Substrate Language Influence in Postcolonial Asian Englishes and the Role of Transfer in the Complementation System1
“An Otter’s Temporary Resting Place”: Michael Longley’s Western Landscape1
Erminda Rentoul Esler's “Physical” and “Virtual” Networks: Women's Activism, the Irish in London, and the Local-Colour Story1
Shakespeare and Textual Theory; The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies1
Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-18301
Poet, Editor, Anarchist: Lola Ridge’s New York Networks1
The Iconicity of Style in Contemporary Science Fiction1
Nationalism and Irony: William Wordsworth’s Political Sonnets of 18071
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History1
“The Eye to the Object”: The Question of Demonstrative Knowledge in Defoe’s The Consolidator1
The Poets of Rapallo: How Mussolini’s Italy Shaped British, Irish, and U.S. Writers1
“Judicial killings – that’s a Rarity in Australia”: Detection, Identity and Representation in Nicole Watson’s The Boundary1
Woden and Widsith1
Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker: Strange Surroundings1
“The Seafolk Have no Souls”: On Ecophobia, Animality and Civilisation in Oscar Wilde’s “The Fisherman and his Soul”1
Interconnections between Art and Commerce: Literary Prizes, Readers, and the Reading Committee of the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933–1958)1
In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical essays on twentieth-century writers and artists1
The Battle of Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Hypothesis1
Stylistics and Contemporary Fiction1
Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje1
Eldarin Cosmotechnics: Posthumanism, Ecology and Techne in Tolkien’s Portrayal of Elven Paradises1
The Palestinian Re-experience of Historical Violence: “A Wound Never Completely Scabbed Over”1
“The Trouble Goes Back to Your Grandfather’s Time”: Masculinity and Domestic Spaces in Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread1
Agape and the Antichrist: Soteriological and Eschatological Masculinities in the Homilies of Wulfstan0
“What Is a Man?”: Disability, Domesticity, and Imperialism in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”0
The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–18430
Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages0
Controlling the Uncontrollable: Estrangement and Appropriation in the First Riddle of the Exeter Book0
Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre0
Correction0
“So This was what Being Alone was like”: Articulations of Vulnerability in Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster0
Conrad’s Decentred Fiction0
The Pragmatics of Racism in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen. An American Lyric (2014)0
Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers' Collaborations and Networks, 1880–19400
England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland0
“The Song of the Shirt” Replanted: Thomas Hood’s Poem in a Nordic Context0
The World My Wildernessand the Possibility of Forgiveness: War, Guilt, Atonement0
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare0
Posthumanist Subjectivities of Fantastic Creatures in the Harry Potter Series0
Between the Mythical and the Ironic: An Analysis of the Imaginative Structure of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy0
Middle English fobbere and the Critical Editing of Piers Plowman0
Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature0
“Distinguished Irishwomen in London”: The Promotion of Professional Networks in Charlotte O'Conor Eccles' Journalism and Fiction0
The Incidence of Aural Incursions in Elizabeth Bowen’sThe Last Septemberand Iris Murdoch’sThe Red and the Green0
The 1930s: a decade of modern British fiction0
Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution0
Deleuzian Time and the Elemental Rhythms of Nature in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)0
Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy0
International Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology of Lost Voices0
Tracing Loss in Times of Rapid Climate Change: Figures of Absence in Omar El Akkad’sAmerican War0
Making (and Un-making) Meaning in Alejandro Zambra’s Multiple Choice0
The Politics of Education in Dorothy Richardson’s Dental Record Writings: The Struggle Over Schooling in the Modernist Literary Field0
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens0
Between Reality and Fantasy: Home in Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children0
The Artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937): The Tragedy of Roger Fry’s Wife0
Traces of the Queer Child inShuggie Bain0
Projection or Reflection? The Pandemic Bookshelf as a Mirror for Self-Image and Personal Identity0
Martin Johnston, the Problem of Elegy, and Social Poetics in Late Modernist Lyric0
Dilemma as Technique: Sarah Schulman’s Queer Detective Fiction and Gentrification0
Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment0
You Do Have to Live Like This: Narrative Foreclosure and the Opening of the Detroit Frontier in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This0
The English Studies Interview with Melissa Harrison0
Unpacking the “Red Flag” Bookshelf: Negotiating Literary Value on Twitter0
Quiet and Personal, or Resoundingly Universal? An Ishiguro Crisis0
Genetic Criticism: Tracing Creativity in Literature0
“Our Love and Terror”: Topophrenia in Seamus Heaney’s Bog Poems0
Flying Machines and Time Experiment in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy”0
The Making of a Shakespeare Critic: Partial English Translations of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre in the Long Nineteenth Century0
Seamus Heaney and the End of Catholic Ireland0
Emotion, Morality, and Exemplarity in Old English Literature0
Instability, Disruption, Dissonance: A Reading ofA Midsummer Night’s Dream0
Introduction: Towards an Ecological Posthumanism in English Studies0
William Caxton and Vernacular Classicism0
Emotions of DISGUST and UNPLEASANT PERSONAL EXPERIENCE as Aesthetic Responses in the Old English Poetic Corpus0
King Arthur’s “Lurking Carcass” and the English Nation: Embodying the State on Stage and Page in The Misfortunes of Arthur and A Mirror for Magistrates0
The Real and the Speculative: Gentrification and Literary Form in Tom McCarthy's Remainder0
“Everything Kills Everything Else in Some Way”: An Ecocritical Reading of Human – Non-Human Relationships in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea0
Representing the Tramp in British Interwar Social Exploration Literature: Frank Jennings, Frank Gray and George Orwell0
On the Making of Robinson’s Stylistic “Fast Ones” Through the Banks Series' Early Years0
Transcending Boundaries: Maternity in the Age of Biotechnological Reproduction in Deirdre Sullivan’s “The Mother”0
Amplifying Reading Experience: Illustrations to Longueville’s The English Hermit , 1727–17990
Narrative Time and Moral Injury in Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress0
The Boatman’s Tale: The Buried Giant and Cosmopolitanism in Crisis0
“Many Strange Tongues” in the Fenlands: The Buried Giant as Brexit Allegory?0
‘We’re Just Fantasizing Aloud Here’: Fantasy and Online Communities in Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts (2005)0
What Kind of a Thing is a Middle English Lyric? What Kind of a Thing is a Middle English Lyric? , edited by Cristina Maria Cervone and Nicholas Watson, Philadelphia, Uni0
Shakespeare and Lost Plays: Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England0
“The Human Slivers of a Civilization”: Language Events in Don DeLillo’sThe Silence0
A “Fanatic in Morality”: The “Native” Question, Revisions, and Emotional Intensity in Anthony Trollope’s South Africa (1878)0
Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies , edited by Robin Norris, Rebecca Stephenson, and Renée Trill0
Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama: Wild Play0
Experiencing Dystopia ThroughUmwelt: Modelling the Nonhuman Animal inHollow Kingdom0
The Representation of Physical Books and Bookish Places in Video Games: The Last of Us Part II0
Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition: Words, Ideas, Interactions0
Beowulf: Translation and Commentary0
Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction0
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature0
Names and Naming in Beowulf: Studies in Heroic Narrative Tradition0
The Reader’s Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader0
The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England0
“It wasn’t always like this”: Displacement and the Poetics of Gentrification in Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks 0
Crisis of Crises: Re-imagining Central Europe in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled0
One Scribe or Two? On the Copying of Sir Gawayn and the Carl of Carlisle in NLW Brogyntyn ii.10
Representations of Terror and Horror in the Frontispieces to Thomas and Robert Hughes’s Gothic Chapbooks0
Probabilistic Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation in World Englishes0
Emotional Anthologies: The Exeter Riddles and the Psalms0
The Sense of Movement in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure0
“Snatch, Eat, Erase”: The Demonization of Women’s (Sexual) Appetite Through Eating Disorders in the CW TV Series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017)0
Peripatetics: Reading Fiona Sampson’s Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside0
West Midland Elements in the Language of the Auchinleck CoupletGuy of Warwick: A Reinterpretation0
Orwell & Empire0
Satire in Eighteenth-Century Medical Discourse: Elizabeth Nihell, Tobias Smollett and the Advent of Man-Midwifery0
“This Ain’t the Way It’s S’posed to Be”: Negotiating Trauma Through Postmemory and Implication in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing0
The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science0
In Memoriam Noel Osselton (1927–2024)0
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution0
Memory Gaps and Biofiction in Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet : Interpreting Mystery and Reimagining Anne Hathaway0
“The Marsh did not Confine Them but Defined Them”. An Ecocritical Analysis of Waterscapes in Contemporary Anglophone Environmental Narratives0
Camp Comedy and “Submerged Trouble”: Molly Keane's Queer Collaborations0
“Not a Sight, but a Sound”: Listening in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India0
“All the City, Written, Erased, Rewritten?”: Sedimentary Memory in Before Yesterday We Could Fly and Teju Cole’s Open City0
Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama0
Scribal Consistency across Four Middle English Texts in NLW, Brogyntyn ii.10
Selina Thompson’s salt. : A Monument of Remembrance and Affective Healing0
Photographs, Diaspora, and Identity: Homecoming in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City0
Complete Old English: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Old English with Original Texts0
Instapoetry: Digital Image Texts Instapoetry: Digital Image Texts , by Niels Penke, Berlin, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 116 pp., £27.99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-36626683370
Displaced Metaphor as Madness? A Critical-Clinical Study of Schizophrenia in Joe Penhall'sBlue/Orange0
The Critical Study of Masculinities in Old English Literature0
The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-19450
A History of Irish Literature and the Environment0
The Knots of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ’s Boar Chase (Lines 1431–7)0
The South Sea Bubble and the Erasure of Slavery and Impressment0
Interpretation, Commercialisation, and Eighteenth-Century Frontispieces: Tobias Smollett0
“In a House with Too Many Holes”: In Praise of Nature as Home in Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations0
Analogical Changes in the Nominal Morphology of Owun’s gloss to the Rushworth Gospels0
Sentimental Genres: The “Old English Elegy” and the Poetics of Nostalgia0
Before the Trials: William Hone and the Rise of the Watchdog Press0
“Something to say upon Women’s Inconstancy”: Fickleness and Fleeting Infatuation in the Shelleys and Beyond0
Transcultural Memory of the Nation in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore0
Bookshelves, Social Media and Gaming0
Tennyson and Goethe’s Faust0
“Cloud-Cuckooland Down There”: Derek Mahon’s Cloud Thinking Poetics0
Ectogenesis, Co-pregnancy and the Politics of Reproductive Labour in The Growing Season: An Interview with Helen Sedgwick0
Diachronic Developments of the Concessive Though -Fronting Construction in American English: A Corpus-Based Perspective0
Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850–1895 Human Tissue in the Realist Novel, 1850–1895 , by Ben Moore, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 100 pp., $44.99(Hardback), ISBN0
Private Study and Opportune Words: Wisdom in the Old English Pastoral Care0
An In-depth Corpus-based Investigation of Unbound Reflexives0
Exeunt the Kit-Cats, Pursued by Pope, Reviewed by Johnson0
The Myth of Family: Friendship and Sexual Impropriety in the Feminist Occult Grail Narratives of Mary Butts’s Armed with Madness (1928)0
“Traits Don't Change, States of Mind Do”: Tracking Olive in Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout0
Arden of Faversham Arden of Faversham , edited by Catherine Richardson(Arden Early Modern Drama), London, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, xviii+337 pp., £90.00 (hardback), 0
Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England0
Nautical Borrowings in Early Modern English: The Case Study of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principall Nauigations (1589)0
The English Studies Interview with Alan Hollinghurst: In Conversation with Dominic Dean0
A Corpus-based Investigation of Modals in Spoken British English: Gender Variation and Change in the Years 1994 and 20140
Tobias Smollett’s and John Campbell’s Contributions to the American Volumes in The Modern Part of an Universal History0
The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century Women: Writing Religious Community0
“Rough Critical Winds”: Mis-Selling English Pastoral in H. E. Bates’s Larkin Novels, 1958–19700
Screening, Cheating and Revenge on Stage in 17210
Jacob Hall and other Rope Dancers at The Hague, 1679–16810
Fractal Gentrification in Hanif Abdurraqib’s Serial Poetry0
Grief, Resurrection & Renewal:geniwadin Old English Verse0
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis0
Historical Fiction Now0
Posthumanism and Female Resistance; Reading the Disruptive Female Body in Uzma Aslam Khan’s The Story of Noble Rot0
Dark Academia: Bookishness, Readerly Self-fashioning and the Digital Afterlife of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History0
The Shakespeare Sermon (1879-1900): Shakespeare the Poet and Shakespeare the Dramatist0
Recovering Old English0
A Cognitive Model of Reading Autofiction0
“Sights from Various Corners of the Globe”: Cosmopolitan Pressure and Paradoxical Mobility in The Remains of the Day0
The Kid’s Transformation, the Judge’s Rejuvenation: Subtle Referential Changes in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Editions0
Recognition of the Self in Penelope Fitzgerald’s Autofictional Novels0
Fluid Adaptive Revision and Twin-Track Authorship: Andrew Bovell’s Lantana Series from Stage to Screen0
The English Studies Interview: Merve Emre0
A Collostructional and Constructional Approach to the Transitive out of - ing Construction0
Rural Modernity, Rural Modernism and Deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s Poetry0
Prepositions with and about and Schematic Conceptualisation of Emotion Causality0
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics0
Landscapes, Women, and Art in A. S. Byatt’s “Crocodile Tears” and “A Stone Woman”0
Old English Lexicology and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey0
Where Does Lexical Diversity Come From? Horizontal Interaction in the Network of the Late Modern English Reaction Object Construction0
Beyond Information Packaging: The Case of Adjective Phrase Inversion in Learned and Scientific Exposition Academic Prose0
The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare’s Sonnets0
Living, Learning, and Dying by Water: Materialist Jamaican Environment in A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes0
The Moral Economy of Sadie Jones’s The Snakes0
Medieval Pasts and Eugenicist Futures: Grant Allen, Masculinity and Early English History0
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie , edited by Mary Anna Evans and J. C. Bernthal, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 0
Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century0
“Alphabets of Flesh”: Writing the Body and Diasporic Women’s Autobiography in Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines0
Variation in the Usage of Relativisation Strategies in Migrant and Non-migrant English Speakers0
Culturally-mediated Perceptions: Remapping Conrad’s Narrative of Colonial Violence0
Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon0
Introducing Trace as an Embodied Approach to the Novel in English0
Life Writings, Autobiographical Subjects: Exploring Colonial Narratives and Anti-Memory in African Freedom Fighters’ Texts0
Memory, Compromised and Implicated Identities, and Narrative Ethics in Rachel Seiffert’s Novels0
Shakespeare and Montaigne0
Poetry in the World: Harriet Monroe's China Travels0
How to Read Middle English Poetry0
Development of the Subject of BE going to in Grammaticalisation from the 1820s to 2010s in Comparison with BE about to0
Crossing the Mirror into Maternal Waters: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Becoming-other in Ella Hickson’sThe Writer(2018)0
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