Interacting with Print: Keywords for the Age of Print Saturation has been published by the University of Chicago Press. This is a ‘multigraph’ written by a collective of 22 scholars with the help of a dedicated wiki. It’s the major output of the Interacting with Print research group, which I led from 2008-2013. Writing it …
Interacting with Print Multigraph
"A textual and visual treat of collaborative scholarship, often exciting in the way it pushes the boundaries of media history." Jon Klancher
What the Victorians Made of Romanticism Book Launch
I’ll be launching my new book What the Victorians Made of Romanticism at Blackwell’s book shop on Edinburgh’s South Bridge on 11 January at 6.30pm. Come along to hear me talk about the book, enjoy a glass of wine and buy a signed copy! Thanks to Princeton University Press for supporting the event and Blackwell’s …
Kathleen Jamie
Next Wednesday I’ll be interviewing the wonderful poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie for the Centre for the History of the Book annual public lecture. Kathleen Jamie is one of the most important and original writers of poetry and prose working in Scotland today. Her work has won an Eric Gregory Award, a Forward Poetry Prize, …
Blog for The Romanticism Blog at the Wordsworth Trust
I wrote a blog about my new book What the Victorians Made of Romanticism for the Romanticism Blog run by the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. In it, I describe some of the main arguments of the book, especially as they relate to William Wordsworth. You can read the blog here. You can buy the book …
Shelley’s Long Poems in Victorian Anthologies
‘Byron and the Difficulty of Beginning’ accepted for RES
My article ‘Byron and the Difficulty of Beginning’ has been accepted for publication in the Review of English Studies. The beginnings of Byron’s longer poems reveal a number of anxieties about the poetic act of beginning. He dealt with these concerns in several ways: revising opening lines, using translations from other poets to begin his …
World Book Day Lecture
I’m very happy to have been invited to give the World Book Day Lecture at the University of Otago in New Zealand next March. World Book Day next year is on 1 March. I’m not quite sure what I’m going to talk about yet, but I’m planning to say something about the things we do …
