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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
“As it is an Evil”: Defensive Equivocation in Measure for Measure4
Embracing Otherness: The Role of Nostalgia in Bicultural Identity Formation in How the García Girls Lost Their Accents , Dreaming in Cuban 4
Gender Space and Collaboration Politics: Christine Longford’s The Furies (1933)4
The Interplay of Dominant Empiricism and Residual Cartesianism in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance4
The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture3
Writing Orality: Australian Aboriginal Voices in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria3
British Battles 493–937: Mount Badon to Brunanburh3
Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries3
Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction3
Geographies of Memory: Paula Hawkins’s Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning3
Rethinking the Red Sea in the Old English Exodus3
Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper3
Negative Dialectics inMrs Dalloway2
The Thunderstorm of Repetition in the Works of Max Porter2
“Born Yesterday”: Philip Larkin and the Denial of Childhood2
Escaping from Brunanburh and John of Worcester2
“Third Space”, Cultural Translation and Linguistic Hospitality in Sinéad Morrissey’s Poetry2
Deconstructing the Female Antagonist of the Coronation Scandal in B’sVita Dunstani2
“I Take it You’ve Read Every Book on the Shelves?” Demonstrating Taste and Class Through Bookshelves in the Time of COVID2
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
Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England , by Daniel Blank, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022
“Hang Loose”: The Ethos and Influence of Oceanfrog Frazer in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree2
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 9: 1939-19412
Body Politics in Contemporary Irish Women’s Fiction: The Literary Legacy of Mother Ireland2
The Iconicity of Style in Contemporary Science Fiction1
Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer1
Correction1
Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-18301
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
In and out of Bloomsbury: Biographical essays on twentieth-century writers and artists1
Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History1
A “Phantom Pain”: The Insidious Trauma of Migration in Fadia Faqir’s My Name is Salma1
“An Otter’s Temporary Resting Place”: Michael Longley’s Western Landscape1
Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters: Thomas Overbury and the Jacobean Playhouse1
Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?: Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje1
Before Utopia: The Making of Thomas More’s Mind1
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
“The Trouble Goes Back to Your Grandfather’s Time”: Masculinity and Domestic Spaces in Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread1
Poet, Editor, Anarchist: Lola Ridge’s New York Networks1
Impressive Shakespeare: Identity, Authority and the Imprint in Shakespearean Drama1
One Soul We Divided: A Critical Edition of the Diary of Michael Field1
Erminda Rentoul Esler's “Physical” and “Virtual” Networks: Women's Activism, the Irish in London, and the Local-Colour Story1
Stylistics and Contemporary Fiction1
Coming Back Down to Earth: The Novel and the Human Condition in the Anthropocene1
Castration Desire: Less Is More in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go1
Nationalism and Irony: William Wordsworth’s Political Sonnets of 18071
Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker: Strange Surroundings1
Tense in Speakers of English as a Contact Language: World Englishes and First Generation Long-immersed Immigrants1
The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350–15001
The Palestinian Re-experience of Historical Violence: “A Wound Never Completely Scabbed Over”1
Order out of Chaos: The Orthographic Standardisation of full and - ful1
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., 1
“Judicial killings – that’s a Rarity in Australia”: Detection, Identity and Representation in Nicole Watson’s The Boundary1
Bending Toward Justice: Moral Failure, Tragic Recognition, and Confession in Cormac McCarthy’s The Stonemason1
Eldarin Cosmotechnics: Posthumanism, Ecology and Techne in Tolkien’s Portrayal of Elven Paradises1
Women and Crowds in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Harkness1
Substrate Language Influence in Postcolonial Asian Englishes and the Role of Transfer in the Complementation System1
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
A Curator in the House of Memory: Restoration, Implication and the Post-Conflict Novel in Aminatta Forna’s The Hired Man1
“[E]verything that is to be Made Whole Must First be Broken”: Religion, Metaphor and Narrative Alchemy in Hilary Mantel's Fludd (1989)1
Interconnections between Art and Commerce: Literary Prizes, Readers, and the Reading Committee of the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933–1958)1
List of reviewers for English Studies 20211
The Battle of Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Hypothesis1
“Alphabets of Flesh”: Writing the Body and Diasporic Women’s Autobiography in Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines0
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
Transcending Boundaries: Maternity in the Age of Biotechnological Reproduction in Deirdre Sullivan’s “The Mother”0
Genetic Criticism: Tracing Creativity in Literature0
The English Studies Interview: Merve Emre0
Poetic Style and Innovation in Old English, Old Norse, and Old Saxon0
From Gay Postmodern to Black/Queer Transness: Alan Hollinghurst’sThe Swimming-Pool Libraryand Paul Mendez’sRainbow Milk0
The Long Shadow of Fáfnir: Dragons in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis0
Traces of the Queer Child inShuggie Bain0
Interpretation, Commercialisation, and Eighteenth-Century Frontispieces: Tobias Smollett0
The English Studies Interview with Melissa Harrison0
Beowulf: Translation and Commentary0
Old English Lexicology and Lexicography: Essays in Honor of Antonette diPaolo Healey0
Camp Comedy and “Submerged Trouble”: Molly Keane's Queer Collaborations0
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
“Our Love and Terror”: Topophrenia in Seamus Heaney’s Bog Poems0
The Critical Study of Masculinities in Old English Literature0
The Moral Economy of Sadie Jones’s The Snakes0
Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama0
Eliot After the Waste Land0
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
Instability, Disruption, Dissonance: A Reading ofA Midsummer Night’s Dream0
How to Read Middle English Poetry0
Complete Old English: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Old English with Original Texts0
Homecoming, Trauma, and Identity in Noo Saro-Wiwa’sLooking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria0
Crossing the Mirror into Maternal Waters: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Becoming-other in Ella Hickson’sThe Writer(2018)0
Shakespeare and Lost Plays: Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England0
“Traits Don't Change, States of Mind Do”: Tracking Olive in Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout0
The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories: Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850-19450
House of Pain: Home Invasion and the Gentrification Sublime0
Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare: Stationers Shaping a Genre0
Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment0
Narrative Time and Moral Injury in Daniel Defoe’s The Fortunate Mistress0
On the Making of Robinson’s Stylistic “Fast Ones” Through the Banks Series' Early Years0
“Cloud-Cuckooland Down There”: Derek Mahon’s Cloud Thinking Poetics0
Examining the Refugee Identity and the Ethics of Hospitality in Richard Powers’ Generosity (2009)0
“So This was what Being Alone was like”: Articulations of Vulnerability in Colm Tóibín’s Nora Webster0
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
Prepositions with and about and Schematic Conceptualisation of Emotion Causality0
“What Is a Man?”: Disability, Domesticity, and Imperialism in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”0
Analogical Changes in the Nominal Morphology of Owun’s gloss to the Rushworth Gospels0
Feeling Bodies: Affect, Neuroscience, and Ecology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker0
Modernism, Space and the City: Outsiders and Affect in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and London0
Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction0
Representing the Tramp in British Interwar Social Exploration Literature: Frank Jennings, Frank Gray and George Orwell0
Quiet and Personal, or Resoundingly Universal? An Ishiguro Crisis0
Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature0
Probabilistic Variability in Clausal Verb Complementation in World Englishes0
Fractal Gentrification in Hanif Abdurraqib’s Serial Poetry0
Private Study and Opportune Words: Wisdom in the Old English Pastoral Care0
One Scribe or Two? On the Copying of Sir Gawayn and the Carl of Carlisle in NLW Brogyntyn ii.10
Deleuzian Time and the Elemental Rhythms of Nature in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)0
“If we had a spaceship could we go there?”: The Road’s Critique of Techno- Futurism and Anthropocentrism0
Beyond Information Packaging: The Case of Adjective Phrase Inversion in Learned and Scientific Exposition Academic Prose0
Dark Academia: Bookishness, Readerly Self-fashioning and the Digital Afterlife of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History0
Grief, Resurrection & Renewal:geniwadin Old English Verse0
Middle English fobbere and the Critical Editing of Piers Plowman0
The Politics of Education in Dorothy Richardson’s Dental Record Writings: The Struggle Over Schooling in the Modernist Literary Field0
Jacob Hall and other Rope Dancers at The Hague, 1679–16810
Development of the Subject of BE going to in Grammaticalisation from the 1820s to 2010s in Comparison with BE about to0
Between the Mythical and the Ironic: An Analysis of the Imaginative Structure of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy0
Bookshelves, Social Media and Gaming0
Fluid Adaptive Revision and Twin-Track Authorship: Andrew Bovell’s Lantana Series from Stage to Screen0
The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature0
“Distinguished Irishwomen in London”: The Promotion of Professional Networks in Charlotte O'Conor Eccles' Journalism and Fiction0
The Representation of Physical Books and Bookish Places in Video Games: The Last of Us Part II0
“Something to say upon Women’s Inconstancy”: Fickleness and Fleeting Infatuation in the Shelleys and Beyond0
Projection or Reflection? The Pandemic Bookshelf as a Mirror for Self-Image and Personal Identity0
“Not a Sight, but a Sound”: Listening in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India0
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
Dilemma as Technique: Sarah Schulman’s Queer Detective Fiction and Gentrification0
The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean0
“The Marsh did not Confine Them but Defined Them”. An Ecocritical Analysis of Waterscapes in Contemporary Anglophone Environmental Narratives0
The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare’s Sonnets0
Flying Machines and Time Experiment in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Bewilderment Trilogy”0
Controlling the Uncontrollable: Estrangement and Appropriation in the First Riddle of the Exeter Book0
Unpacking the “Red Flag” Bookshelf: Negotiating Literary Value on Twitter0
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare0
Emotion, Morality, and Exemplarity in Old English Literature0
The Transglossic: Contemporary Fiction and the Limitations of the Modern0
Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology0
The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England0
Shakespeare and Montaigne0
Don Quixote, Benengeli and Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy0
“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
The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and Science0
The Reader’s Joyce: Ulysses, Authorship and the Authority of the Reader0
Medieval Pasts and Eugenicist Futures: Grant Allen, Masculinity and Early English History0
Three Nineteenth-Century British Travellers in Palestine: Walking and the Art of Critique0
“Many Strange Tongues” in the Fenlands: The Buried Giant as Brexit Allegory?0
Exeunt the Kit-Cats, Pursued by Pope, Reviewed by Johnson0
A “Fanatic in Morality”: The “Native” Question, Revisions, and Emotional Intensity in Anthony Trollope’s South Africa (1878)0
Memory, Compromised and Implicated Identities, and Narrative Ethics in Rachel Seiffert’s Novels0
“From the Editor’s Standpoint”: L.T. Meade, Alice Corkran, and Lessons on Authorship, Collaboration, and Competition0
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
Diachronic Developments of the Concessive Though -Fronting Construction in American English: A Corpus-Based Perspective0
Tennyson and Goethe’s Faust0
A History of Irish Literature and the Environment0
Portrait of a Woman Writer: Friendship and Collaboration Between Jane Barlow and Sarah Purser0
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution0
England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland0
“The Song of the Shirt” Replanted: Thomas Hood’s Poem in a Nordic Context0
Seamus Heaney and the End of Catholic Ireland0
Names and Naming in Beowulf: Studies in Heroic Narrative Tradition0
Experiencing Dystopia ThroughUmwelt: Modelling the Nonhuman Animal inHollow Kingdom0
The Kid’s Transformation, the Judge’s Rejuvenation: Subtle Referential Changes in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Editions0
Agape and the Antichrist: Soteriological and Eschatological Masculinities in the Homilies of Wulfstan0
Nautical Borrowings in Early Modern English: The Case Study of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principall Nauigations (1589)0
Representations of Terror and Horror in the Frontispieces to Thomas and Robert Hughes’s Gothic Chapbooks0
Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of Troy0
The Incidence of Aural Incursions in Elizabeth Bowen’sThe Last Septemberand Iris Murdoch’sThe Red and the Green0
Crisis of Crises: Re-imagining Central Europe in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled0
The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis0
Peripatetics: Reading Fiona Sampson’s Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside0
“Sights from Various Corners of the Globe”: Cosmopolitan Pressure and Paradoxical Mobility in The Remains of the Day0
The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century Women: Writing Religious Community0
International Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology of Lost Voices0
The 1930s: a decade of modern British fiction0
“Snatch, Eat, Erase”: The Demonization of Women’s (Sexual) Appetite Through Eating Disorders in the CW TV Series The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017)0
In Memoriam Noel Osselton (1927–2024)0
The South Sea Bubble and the Erasure of Slavery and Impressment0
Between Reality and Fantasy: Home in Ransom Riggs's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children0
The Shakespeare Sermon (1879-1900): Shakespeare the Poet and Shakespeare the Dramatist0
The Real and the Speculative: Gentrification and Literary Form in Tom McCarthy's Remainder0
Afterlives of Slavery in Maxine Beneba Clarke’s “Demerara Sugar”0
The Boatman’s Tale: The Buried Giant and Cosmopolitanism in Crisis0
Variation in the Usage of Relativisation Strategies in Migrant and Non-migrant English Speakers0
Criminally Fat: Reframing the homme fatal in Vera Caspary’s Laura (1943)0
Introducing Trace as an Embodied Approach to the Novel in English0
Rural Modernity, Rural Modernism and Deindustrialisation in Norman Nicholson’s Poetry0
Bad English. Literature, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Britain0
Before the Trials: William Hone and the Rise of the Watchdog Press0
“All the City, Written, Erased, Rewritten?”: Sedimentary Memory in Before Yesterday We Could Fly and Teju Cole’s Open City0
Riddles at Work in the Early Medieval Tradition: Words, Ideas, Interactions0
Instapoetry: Digital Image Texts Instapoetry: Digital Image Texts , by Niels Penke, Berlin, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 116 pp., £27.99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-36626683370
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Gestural Poetics0
Landscapes, Women, and Art in A. S. Byatt’s “Crocodile Tears” and “A Stone Woman”0
Photographs, Diaspora, and Identity: Homecoming in Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City0
The Censorship of Eighteenth-Century Theatre: Playhouses and Prohibition, 1737–18430
Satire in Eighteenth-Century Medical Discourse: Elizabeth Nihell, Tobias Smollett and the Advent of Man-Midwifery0
Displaced Metaphor as Madness? A Critical-Clinical Study of Schizophrenia in Joe Penhall'sBlue/Orange0
Martin Johnston, the Problem of Elegy, and Social Poetics in Late Modernist Lyric0
A Corpus-based Investigation of Modals in Spoken British English: Gender Variation and Change in the Years 1994 and 20140
The Making of a Shakespeare Critic: Partial English Translations of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre in the Long Nineteenth Century0
Where Does Lexical Diversity Come From? Horizontal Interaction in the Network of the Late Modern English Reaction Object Construction0
Women Historians and Acknowledgments: Scholarly Collaboration as Expression of Authorial Self in Alice Stopford Green’s Histories, c. 1880–19160
Transcultural Memory of the Nation in Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore0
Life Writings, Autobiographical Subjects: Exploring Colonial Narratives and Anti-Memory in African Freedom Fighters’ Texts0
Connecting Voices: An Introduction to Irish Women Writers' Collaborations and Networks, 1880–19400
American Evil: Steven Zultanski’s Bribery, Liberal Guilt and the Quest for Authenticity0
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
Conrad’s Decentred Fiction0
Screening, Cheating and Revenge on Stage in 17210
An In-depth Corpus-based Investigation of Unbound Reflexives0
The World My Wildernessand the Possibility of Forgiveness: War, Guilt, Atonement0
“A Cold Fusion of Two Universal Elements”: Lady Macbeth’s Archive in Netflix’s House of Cards (Beau Willimon, David Fincher, 2013–2018)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
Allegories of the Anthropocene0
William Caxton and Vernacular Classicism0
The Demons of Leonard Cohen0
Culturally-mediated Perceptions: Remapping Conrad’s Narrative of Colonial Violence0
“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
A Collostructional and Constructional Approach to the Transitive out of - ing Construction0
Tobias Smollett’s and John Campbell’s Contributions to the American Volumes in The Modern Part of an Universal History0
The Status of Compound Relatives in the Northumbrian Old English Gloss to the Rushworth Gospels0
Tracing Loss in Times of Rapid Climate Change: Figures of Absence in Omar El Akkad’sAmerican War0
“Rough Critical Winds”: Mis-Selling English Pastoral in H. E. Bates’s Larkin Novels, 1958–19700
Scribal Consistency across Four Middle English Texts in NLW, Brogyntyn ii.10
“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
‘We’re Just Fantasizing Aloud Here’: Fantasy and Online Communities in Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts (2005)0
“This Ain’t the Way It’s S’posed to Be”: Negotiating Trauma Through Postmemory and Implication in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing0
Historical Fiction Now0
West Midland Elements in the Language of the Auchinleck CoupletGuy of Warwick: A Reinterpretation0
Emotional Anthologies: The Exeter Riddles and the Psalms0
The Artist Helen Coombe (1864-1937): The Tragedy of Roger Fry’s Wife0
Rewriting the North: Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution0
A Cognitive Model of Reading Autofiction0
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens0
Making (and Un-making) Meaning in Alejandro Zambra’s Multiple Choice0
Orwell & Empire0
The Sense of Movement in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur and the Alliterative Morte Arthure0
Recovering Old English0
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