Books and chapters
'Exit Pursued by Gypsies' in Rosa Maria Garcia Periago, ed., Jane & Will: the Literary Love Affair between Austen and Shakespeare (forthcoming).
'Innovation' in Jane Potter, ed., The Cambridge History of Poetry of the First World War (forthcoming).
'Satire and Estrangement' in Dominic Head, ed., The Cambridge History of the Short Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
'Poetry and Class' in Ed Larrissy, ed., The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry Since 1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions: the significance of objects. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
The Poetry of Ted Hughes. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
The Unbearable Saki. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
‘Sex in the “sick, sick body politic”: Tony Harrison and fruit’, in Cedric Barfoot, ed., And Never Know the Joys. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006.
George Bernard Shaw: Plays. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
H, v. & O: The Poetry of Tony Harrison. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Tony Harrison: Loiner. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1997.
Shorter contributions to collections include
‘George Mackay Brown’ and ‘Saki (H.H. Munro)’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Authors Supplement vol. VI. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2000. ‘
Andrew Marvell’ and ‘Daniel Defoe’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Authors Supplement vol. VIII. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2002.
‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Classics. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2002.
‘Emma’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Classics. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2003.
‘Wuthering Heights’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Classics. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2003.
‘Vanity Fair’ in Jay Parini, ed., British Classics. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2003.
‘Jon Stallworthy’, in Jay Parini, ed., British Authors vol. V. New York: Charles Scribner’s 2004.
‘Sara Maitland’ in British Writers vol. VI. New York: Charles Scribner’s 2005.
‘Saki’ in Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm, eds, The Blackwell Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Oxford: Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
Tony Harrison’, in The Oxford Encyclopaedia of British Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. (
