New Publications from York English

Posted on 2 January 2020

Congratulations to our colleagues who have published new monographs and collections this year.

bookjacket of 'The Outside Thing' by Hannah Roche

Our 2019 book publications reflect the range and variety of our research, reaching from Medieval Historical Writing to contemporary British Muslim novels.

Dr Hannah Roche's The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance offers a playful and provocative take on lesbian modernism, asking how three major writers took on and transformed heteronormative ideas of romance. Dr Claire Chambers' Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels explores how modern fictions engage with and expand the senses as part of Muslim writers' powerful accounts of contemporary Britain. And Dr James Watt's British Orientalisms, 1759-1835 asks how Britons understand their relationship with the East in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the influence Eastern cultures had on British life and fiction.

Two important edited collections also explore crucial questions of emotion and tradition. Professor Elizabeth Tyler is co-editor of Medieval Historical Writing, which explores a thousand years of history writing across England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, demonstrating the vibrancy and importance of history writing in the medieval period. Professor David Attwell is co-editor of The Poetics & Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature, which brings together early career and established scholars to address urgent questions of racism, agency, ethical recognition, shamelessness, and willed forgetfulness.

Emeritus Professor Derek Attridge has published a major survey of poetry from Ancient Greece to the English Renaissance. The Experience of Poetry: From Homer's Listeners to Shakespeare's Readers charts how poetry was experienced by hearers and listeners, emphasising the importance of orality to the long history of poetry and reading.

Look out for more exciting publications from University of York colleagues in the new year, including Dr Alexandra Kingston-Reese's Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life and Professor Matthew Campbell's major collection, Irish Literature in Transition, 1830-1880.