In this video, I talk about the work placement option that I set up for students on the MSc in Book History and Material Culture at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for the History of the Book.
In this paper I gave at the 2017 Shelley Conference in London, I explore how Victorian anthologists handled Percy Shelley’s longer poems.
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 …
"A textual and visual treat of collaborative scholarship, often exciting in the way it pushes the boundaries of media history." Jon Klancher
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
