English Studies

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
“As it is an Evil”: Defensive Equivocation in Measure for Measure5
The Interplay of Dominant Empiricism and Residual Cartesianism in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance4
Gender Space and Collaboration Politics: Christine Longford’s The Furies (1933)4
Geographies of Memory: Paula Hawkins’s Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning4
British Battles 493–937: Mount Badon to Brunanburh4
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture3
Embracing Otherness: The Role of Nostalgia in Bicultural Identity Formation in How the García Girls Lost Their Accents , Dreaming in Cuban 3
Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries3
Writing Orality: Australian Aboriginal Voices in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria3
Rethinking the Red Sea in the Old English Exodus3
Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper3
Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England , by Daniel Blank, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022
“I Take it You’ve Read Every Book on the Shelves?” Demonstrating Taste and Class Through Bookshelves in the Time of COVID2
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 9: 1939-19412
Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland2
Negative Dialectics inMrs Dalloway2
The Thunderstorm of Repetition in the Works of Max Porter2
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
Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester2
“Third Space”, Cultural Translation and Linguistic Hospitality in Sinéad Morrissey’s Poetry2
“Hang Loose”: The Ethos and Influence of Oceanfrog Frazer in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree2
Deconstructing the Female Antagonist of the Coronation Scandal in B’sVita Dunstani2
“Born Yesterday”: Philip Larkin and the Denial of Childhood2
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
Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje1
Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse1
Irish Women Writers and Their (Trans)National Networks: Making and Translating Local Colour Literature1
The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing: Kitchen Sink Aesthetics1
One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field1
A “Phantom Pain”: The Insidious Trauma of Migration in Fadia Faqir’s My Name is Salma1
Erminda Rentoul Esler's “Physical” and “Virtual” Networks: Women's Activism, the Irish in London, and the Local-Colour Story1
Bending Toward Justice: Moral Failure, Tragic Recognition, and Confession in Cormac McCarthy’s The Stonemason1
Stylistics and Contemporary Fiction1
Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama1
Order out of Chaos: The Orthographic Standardisation of full and - ful1
Correction1
Shakespeare and Textual Theory; The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies1
Revisiting the Pansies Notebook: New Approaches to D. H. Lawrence's Late Archives1
List of reviewers for English Studies 20211
Interconnections between Art and Commerce: Literary Prizes, Readers, and the Reading Committee of the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933–1958)1
Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker: Strange Surroundings1
“They’d Eaten Every One”: Food Anthropomorphism in “The Walrus and the Carpenter”1
“The Seafolk Have no Souls”: On Ecophobia, Animality and Civilisation in Oscar Wilde’s “The Fisherman and his Soul”1
Eldarin Cosmotechnics: Posthumanism, Ecology and Techne in Tolkien’s Portrayal of Elven Paradises1
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
“Judicial killings – that’s a Rarity in Australia”: Detection, Identity and Representation in Nicole Watson’s The Boundary1
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History1
Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer1
Blood and Footprints: Traces of Embodiment in Jude the Obscure and The Woman in White1
Making Light of Grave Matters: Humour in Edith Eaton’s Works1
The Palestinian Re-experience of Historical Violence: “A Wound Never Completely Scabbed Over”1
The Iconicity of Style in Contemporary Science Fiction1
Before Utopia: The Making of Thomas More’s Mind1
The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350–15001
“All that I Am Craving Is the Talk”: Collaboration, Translation and Lady Gregory’s Workhouse Ward1
Substrate Language Influence in Postcolonial Asian Englishes and the Role of Transfer in the Complementation System1
Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-18301
Castration Desire: Less Is More in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go1
Woden and Widsith1
“[E]verything that is to be Made Whole Must First be Broken”: Religion, Metaphor and Narrative Alchemy in Hilary Mantel's Fludd (1989)1
In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical essays on twentieth-century writers and artists1
“An Otter’s Temporary Resting Place”: Michael Longley’s Western Landscape1
Nationalism and Irony: William Wordsworth’s Political Sonnets of 18071
Coming Back Down to Earth: The Novel and the Human Condition in the Anthropocene1
Poet, Editor, Anarchist: Lola Ridge’s New York Networks1
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
The Battle of Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Hypothesis1
“The Trouble Goes Back to Your Grandfather’s Time”: Masculinity and Domestic Spaces in Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread1
Shakespeare and Montaigne0
A Corpus-based Investigation of Modals in Spoken British English: Gender Variation and Change in the Years 1994 and 20140
A Cognitive Model of Reading Autofiction0
The Moral Economy of Sadie Jones’s The Snakes0
“The Song of the Shirt” Replanted: Thomas Hood’s Poem in a Nordic Context0
American Evil: Steven Zultanski’s Bribery, Liberal Guilt and the Quest for Authenticity0
Controlling the Uncontrollable: Estrangement and Appropriation in the First Riddle of the Exeter Book0
International Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology of Lost Voices0
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution0
The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-19450
Exeunt the Kit-Cats, Pursued by Pope, Reviewed by Johnson0
“From the Editor’s Standpoint”: L.T. Meade, Alice Corkran, and Lessons on Authorship, Collaboration, and Competition0
Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama0
Crossing the Mirror into Maternal Waters: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Becoming-other in Ella Hickson’sThe Writer(2018)0
Rural Modernity, Rural Modernism and Deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s Poetry0
On the Making of Robinson’s Stylistic “Fast Ones” Through the Banks Series' Early Years0
Crisis of Crises: Re-imagining Central Europe in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled0
Emotions of DISGUST and UNPLEASANT PERSONAL EXPERIENCE as Aesthetic Responses in the Old English Poetic Corpus0
“This Ain’t the Way It’s S’posed to Be”: Negotiating Trauma Through Postmemory and Implication in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing0
Diachronic Developments of the Concessive Though -Fronting Construction in American English: A Corpus-Based Perspective0
Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre0
Probabilistic Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation in World Englishes0
The 1930s: a decade of modern British fiction0
Amplifying Reading Experience: Illustrations to Longueville’s The English Hermit , 1727–17990
Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution0
Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers' Collaborations and Networks, 1880–19400
“If we had a spaceship could we go there?”: The Road’s Critique of Techno- Futurism and Anthropocentrism0
‘We’re Just Fantasizing Aloud Here’: Fantasy and Online Communities in Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts (2005)0
“I Know Well and Appreciate the Repose and Delight to Be Found in Gardening”: Class, Gender, and “Garden Elements” in Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son0
Recovering Old English0
Orwell & Empire0
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens0
Transcending Boundaries: Maternity in the Age of Biotechnological Reproduction in Deirdre Sullivan’s “The Mother”0
The Politics of Education in Dorothy Richardson’s Dental Record Writings: The Struggle Over Schooling in the Modernist Literary Field0
Beyond Information Packaging: The Case of Adjective Phrase Inversion in Learned and Scientific Exposition Academic Prose0
The Kid’s Transformation, the Judge’s Rejuvenation: Subtle Referential Changes in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Editions0
“Not a Sight, but a Sound”: Listening in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India0
Camp Comedy and “Submerged Trouble”: Molly Keane's Queer Collaborations0
Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature0
Traces of the Queer Child inShuggie Bain0
The Incidence of Aural Incursions in Elizabeth Bowen’sThe Last Septemberand Iris Murdoch’sThe Red and the Green0
Emotion, Morality, and Exemplarity in Old English Literature0
Deleuzian Time and the Elemental Rhythms of Nature in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)0
Nautical Borrowings in Early Modern English: The Case Study of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principall Nauigations (1589)0
Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction0
Landscapes, Women, and Art in A. S. Byatt’s “Crocodile Tears” and “A Stone Woman”0
The Status of Compound Relatives in the Northumbrian Old English Gloss to the Rushworth Gospels0
The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science0
Making (and Un-making) Meaning in Alejandro Zambra’s Multiple Choice0
Experiencing Dystopia ThroughUmwelt: Modelling the Nonhuman Animal inHollow Kingdom0
Life Writings, Autobiographical Subjects: Exploring Colonial Narratives and Anti-Memory in African Freedom Fighters’ Texts0
“Cloud-Cuckooland Down There”: Derek Mahon’s Cloud Thinking Poetics0
Memory Gaps and Biofiction in Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet : Interpreting Mystery and Reimagining Anne Hathaway0
Projection or Reflection? The Pandemic Bookshelf as a Mirror for Self-Image and Personal Identity0
Dilemma as Technique: Sarah Schulman’s Queer Detective Fiction and Gentrification0
Conrad’s Decentred Fiction0
Analogical Changes in the Nominal Morphology of Owun’s gloss to the Rushworth Gospels0
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
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics0
Unpacking the “Red Flag” Bookshelf: Negotiating Literary Value on Twitter0
William Caxton and Vernacular Classicism0
Medieval Pasts and Eugenicist Futures: Grant Allen, Masculinity and Early English History0
Development of the Subject of BE going to in Grammaticalisation from the 1820s to 2010s in Comparison with BE about to0
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
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
The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England0
Representing the Tramp in British Interwar Social Exploration Literature: Frank Jennings, Frank Gray and George Orwell0
Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages0
How to Read Middle English Poetry0
Instability, Disruption, Dissonance: A Reading ofA Midsummer Night’s Dream0
A Collostructional and Constructional Approach to the Transitive out of - ing Construction0
Memory, Compromised and Implicated Identities, and Narrative Ethics in Rachel Seiffert’s Novels0
Agape and the Antichrist: Soteriological and Eschatological Masculinities in the Homilies of Wulfstan0
New Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Writer, 1832–18600
The South Sea Bubble and the Erasure of Slavery and Impressment0
“Many Strange Tongues” in the Fenlands: The Buried Giant as Brexit Allegory?0
“Distinguished Irishwomen in London”: The Promotion of Professional Networks in Charlotte O'Conor Eccles' Journalism and Fiction0
Tennyson and Goethe’s Faust0
The Artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937): The Tragedy of Roger Fry’s Wife0
Sentimental Genres: The “Old English Elegy” and the Poetics of Nostalgia0
One Scribe or Two? On the Copying of Sir Gawayn and the Carl of Carlisle in NLW Brogyntyn ii.10
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
Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy0
The Sense of Movement in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure0
“A Cold Fusion of Two Universal Elements”: Lady Macbeth’s Archive in Netflix’s House of Cards (Beau Willimon, David Fincher, 2013–2018)0
Middle English fobbere and the Critical Editing of Piers Plowman0
Screening, Cheating and Revenge on Stage in 17210
“Sights from Various Corners of the Globe”: Cosmopolitan Pressure and Paradoxical Mobility in The Remains of the Day0
Tracing Loss in Times of Rapid Climate Change: Figures of Absence in Omar El Akkad’sAmerican War0
The Long Shadow of Fáfnir: Dragons in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis0
The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century Women: Writing Religious Community0
England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland0
Martin Johnston, the Problem of Elegy, and Social Poetics in Late Modernist Lyric0
The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean0
Names and Naming in Beowulf: Studies in Heroic Narrative Tradition0
“Something to say upon Women’s Inconstancy”: Fickleness and Fleeting Infatuation in the Shelleys and Beyond0
“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
The English Studies Interview with Melissa Harrison0
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare0
Representations of Terror and Horror in the Frontispieces to Thomas and Robert Hughes’s Gothic Chapbooks0
“The Marsh did not Confine Them but Defined Them”. An Ecocritical Analysis of Waterscapes in Contemporary Anglophone Environmental Narratives0
Emotional Anthologies: The Exeter Riddles and the Psalms0
Where Does Lexical Diversity Come From? Horizontal Interaction in the Network of the Late Modern English Reaction Object Construction0
Tobias Smollett’s and John Campbell’s Contributions to the American Volumes in The Modern Part of an Universal History0
Genetic Criticism: Tracing Creativity in Literature0
Seamus Heaney and the End of Catholic Ireland0
The Critical Study of Masculinities in Old English Literature0
Complete Old English: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Old English with Original Texts0
The Reader’s Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader0
Criminally Fat: Reframing the homme fatal in Vera Caspary’s Laura (1943)0
Variation in the Usage of Relativisation Strategies in Migrant and Non-migrant English Speakers0
Displaced Metaphor as Madness? A Critical-Clinical Study of Schizophrenia in Joe Penhall'sBlue/Orange0
A History of Irish Literature and the Environment0
The Boatman’s Tale: The Buried Giant and Cosmopolitanism in Crisis0
Interpretation, Commercialisation, and Eighteenth-Century Frontispieces: Tobias Smollett0
“All the City, Written, Erased, Rewritten?”: Sedimentary Memory in Before Yesterday We Could Fly and Teju Cole’s Open City0
Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment0
The Representation of Physical Books and Bookish Places in Video Games: The Last of Us Part II0
Before the Trials: William Hone and the Rise of the Watchdog Press0
“Our Love and Terror”: Topophrenia in Seamus Heaney’s Bog Poems0
Photographs, Diaspora, and Identity: Homecoming in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City0
Prepositions with and about and Schematic Conceptualisation of Emotion Causality0
Three Nineteenth-Century British Travellers in Palestine: Walking and the Art of Critique0
Beowulf: Translation and Commentary0
Transcultural Memory of the Nation in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore0
“So This was what Being Alone was like”: Articulations of Vulnerability in Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster0
The Making of a Shakespeare Critic: Partial English Translations of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre in the Long Nineteenth Century0
Bookshelves, Social Media and Gaming0
House of Pain: Home Invasion and the Gentrification Sublime0
Satire in Eighteenth-Century Medical Discourse: Elizabeth Nihell, Tobias Smollett and the Advent of Man-Midwifery0
Narrative Time and Moral Injury in Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress0
Between Reality and Fantasy: Home in Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children0
Modernism, Space and the City: Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London0
An In-depth Corpus-based Investigation of Unbound Reflexives0
Private Study and Opportune Words: Wisdom in the Old English Pastoral Care0
Eliot After the Waste Land0
The Real and the Speculative: Gentrification and Literary Form in Tom McCarthy's Remainder0
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
Scribal Consistency across Four Middle English Texts in NLW, Brogyntyn ii.10
“What Is a Man?”: Disability, Domesticity, and Imperialism in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”0
Grief, Resurrection & Renewal:geniwadin Old English Verse0
Poetry in the World: Harriet Monroe's China Travels0
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis0
“Traits Don't Change, States of Mind Do”: Tracking Olive in Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout0
West Midland Elements in the Language of the Auchinleck CoupletGuy of Warwick: A Reinterpretation0
The Shakespeare Sermon (1879-1900): Shakespeare the Poet and Shakespeare the Dramatist0
Feeling Bodies: Affect, Neuroscience, and Ecology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker0
“Snatch, Eat, Erase”: The Demonization of Women’s (Sexual) Appetite Through Eating Disorders in the CW TV Series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017)0
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
Jacob Hall and other Rope Dancers at The Hague, 1679–16810
Shakespeare and Lost Plays: Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England0
“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
Fluid Adaptive Revision and Twin-Track Authorship: Andrew Bovell’s Lantana Series from Stage to Screen0
Between the Mythical and the Ironic: An Analysis of the Imaginative Structure of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy0
“Alphabets of Flesh”: Writing the Body and Diasporic Women’s Autobiography in Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines0
Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition: Words, Ideas, Interactions0
“Rough Critical Winds”: Mis-Selling English Pastoral in H. E. Bates’s Larkin Novels, 1958–19700
Introducing Trace as an Embodied Approach to the Novel in English0
Fractal Gentrification in Hanif Abdurraqib’s Serial Poetry0
The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–18430
Historical Fiction Now0
Instapoetry: Digital Image Texts Instapoetry: Digital Image Texts , by Niels Penke, Berlin, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 116 pp., £27.99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-36626683370
Dark Academia: Bookishness, Readerly Self-fashioning and the Digital Afterlife of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History0
Flying Machines and Time Experiment in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy”0
Quiet and Personal, or Resoundingly Universal? An Ishiguro Crisis0
Peripatetics: Reading Fiona Sampson’s Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside0
The Knots of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ’s Boar Chase (Lines 1431–7)0
Milton, Longinus, and the Sublime in the Seventeenth Century0
In Memoriam Noel Osselton (1927–2024)0
The World My Wildernessand the Possibility of Forgiveness: War, Guilt, Atonement0
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature0
The English Studies Interview: Merve Emre0
From Gay Postmodern to Black/Queer Transness: Alan Hollinghurst’sThe Swimming-Pool Libraryand Paul Mendez’sRainbow Milk0
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
Culturally-mediated Perceptions: Remapping Conrad’s Narrative of Colonial Violence0
Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon0
The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare’s Sonnets0
Old English Lexicology and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey0
Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama: Wild Play0
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