Publications (by genre and in chronological order)
Please note that books edited by me are listed individually from book chapters in books edited by me: this is simply for purposes of clarity and is not intended to constitute double counting.
Books
1. John Ruskin (Stroud: Sutton 1999), ISBN 0750921420, xiii, 114
‘Good things often come in small packages, and [this] volume on John Ruskin is a case in point. Francis O’Gorman’s slim work is a rich, engaging and comprehensive introduction to the life of the nineteenth-century critic of art and society. It is appropriate that this biography of a writer’s life should be organized according to his changing intellectual interests. The book is divided into six chronological chapters, each revealing the close relationship between Ruskin’s life and his work. Beginning with his early education and writings, through his unhappy marriage and loss of faith, over the shift in his writing from art to social critique, his relationship with the much younger Rose La Touche and his eventual madness, this biography covers the major events of Ruskin’s life. O’Gorman also provides brief but clear summaries of the famous and some of the less familiar works, and he illustrates the continuity between Ruskin’s art criticism and his political work. But there is so much more. In addition to the expected focus on the man and his work, O’Gorman succeeds in creating an intimate sense of Victorian society, through references to and frequent quotations from Ruskin’s contemporaries’ Elizabeth Archer, New Books in Nineteenth-Century Studies.
2. Late Ruskin: New Contexts, The Nineteenth-Century Series (Aldershot and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2001) ISBN 184014629X, xii, 180. Republished in July 2016 by Taylor & Francis as part of a set of books on ‘Social and Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century’.
‘O’Gorman’s approach works especially well in the first chapter, on the “domestic context” of Unto This Last (1860), which challenges the usual assumption that Ruskin’s radical economics signaled a breach between him and his father … In a fascinating survey [in chapter 5] of early Ruskin biographies, O’Gorman shows that the authors restored this masculine wholeness to their subject, viewing him as a soldier battling for virtue … The final chapter is an extended, sometimes rapturous commentary on The Bible of Amiens (1880-85) – a page-by- page reading that seems to float with Ruskin’s prose even as it evokes and contextualizes it. It is the book’s best answer to the hypothetical poststructuralists to whom Ruskin “rarely appeals.”’ Paul Sawyer, Victorian Studies
‘Here’s a good book about Ruskin’s late work, a frequently overlooked, often maligned portion of his remarkable output. Thanks to Francis O’Gorman’s ability to recontextualize much of that work, the barriers which have kept scholars from seriously studying most of these writings should finally fall and a fresh reading begin. … [O’Gorman] has gone far toward rehabilitating Ruskin’s late works, he has pointed implicitly to the real reason Ruskin is so often relegated to scholarly back shelves. He was an unabashed moralist, arguing throughout his career that if one thinks things through, better and worse ways for human beings to live emerge inescapably from the analysis, and more often than not, we have frequently chosen the more noxious of the available paths. During his own lifetime, these pointed arguments made Ruskin’s readers extremely uneasy. If Ruskin were out of his mind, however, such discomforting critiques need not be considered seriously. Happily, Francis O’Gorman has shown us that in his late works John Ruskin was anything but mad, thereby depriving many of this great Victorian critics of one of their favorite arguments and doing us moderns some true good.’ James L Spates, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies.
‘O’Gorman focuses on Ruskin’s work between 1860 and 1889, and his scope is ambitious. He situates Ruskin’s work within a series of late Victorian concerns, the complexities of gender identity, the hermeneutics of history, the battles of contemporary politics and questions of justice, and the role of education in moral development. The scope of these issues and the complexity, digressiveness, and elusiveness of Ruskin’s writing might seem to pose an organizational challenge, but O’Gorman chooses to devote an entire chapter to each main text he treats, giving his study focus and control. At the same time, he is attentive to intersecting themes and issues. He examines these first in their specific textual appearances, but, as he progresses, he discusses how they become more complex in different textual circumstances, thereby providing a precise but rich reading of material that is more amorphous than Ruskin’s early work... O’Gorman’s ability to see the interconnections among Ruskin’s faith, mythography, historiography, and social conscience is one of the great strengths of this detailed, complex, and lucid study...[For] a study that warms to Ruskin and attempts a more inclusive view of the rich complexity of his thought, not only aesthetic but social, and the ways that the demands of biography, politics, and performance inform it, one should turn to O’Gorman’. Helen Pike Bauer, Victorians Institute Journal.
‘O’Gorman’s careful and sympathetic book provides the narrative of self which links the parts to the whole of this sad and visionary man’. Marion Shaw, Review of English Studies
‘O’Gorman’s Late Ruskin: New Contexts fills a gap in criticism of Ruskin’s works in the middle and later period of his life…O’Gorman has given a new direction to Ruskin research through his original thinking, his gaze at Ruskin and his reinterpretation of Ruskin’s gaze…This is a scholarly, well-researched book written in a lively, immediate and relaxed style with the advantage of having each chapter as an independent, yet interlinked, unit. It benefits from a meticulous examination of much unpublished material in libraries … so enabling us to see new facets of Ruskin hitherto concealed. Cynthia Gamble, Nineteenth-Century Contexts
‘Ruskin scholars should be grateful to Francis O’Gorman for [his] new book, Late Ruskin: New Contexts. Although the books aims are modest, I found it consistently engaging, persuasive, and well-written. In particular, O’Gorman is to be commended for having mastered the substantial and relatively understudied Ruskin corpus after Unto This Last. The context that [he] brings to bear are of two kinds: biographical, concerning the relevance of Ruskin’s personal relationships to writing, and historical, concerning Ruskin’s reactions to developments in Victorian culture and politics. [His] important archival work corrects long- standing “facts” about Ruskin, most notably the belief that Ruskin’s father did not approve of his economic writing; on the contrast, as [he] demonstrates from ms. evidence, Ruskin’s father showed “considerable support and endorsement” (p.22) for his views … I learned from each chapter. I was especially intrigued by [his] discussion of The Bible of Amiens and Ruskin’s revision of his theory of the Gothic to accommodate his later works’ more eclectic, myth- based interests. O’Gorman also writes illuminatingly about Ruskin’s interpretations of gender, his changing attitudes towards the Pre-Raphaelites, and his response to the Paris Commune in ForsClavigera.’ Andrew Elfenbein, SEL: Studies in English Literature
‘All serious scholars of Victorian literature will want to read it.’ Todd K. Bender, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History
3. Ruskin and Gender edited with an introduction by Dinah Birch and Francis O’Gorman (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002) with essays by Dinah Birch, Joseph Bristow, J. B. Bullen, Emily Eells, Francis O’Gorman, Linda Peterson, Catherine Robson, Lindsay Smith, and Sharon Aronofsky Weltman. ISBN 0333968972, xiii, 211
‘…opens up further fascinating areas of [Ruskin’s] career as a writer and teacher … It is increasingly difficult to find a publisher for collections of academic essays these days, and Palgrave are to be congratulated for once again contributing to leading-edge Ruskin scholarship.’ Michael Wheeler, Victorian Review(2003)
‘This book provides a treasure trove of valuable insights for a wider circle of scholars than its title might imply. When Kate Millett in Sexual Politics (1971) directed the spotlight of feminist derision on Ruskin’s definitions of “man” and “woman” in “Of Queens’ Gardens” (1865), she ensured his significance for any scholar interested in the cultural complexities of the nineteenth-century. Although all the contributors are in English departments, their essays, given originally at a conference in Oxford in 1999, reflect the far-reaching parameters of literary research, with an emphasis on historicist interpretation, life-writing and visual culture. For those familiar with Ruskin mainly from anthologized extracts of his writings, these essays present a composite multi-dimensional portrait, at odds with the patriarchal mouthpiece of Millett’s polemic. ‘The reappraisal is set rolling by Francis O’Gorman’s forceful opening chapter, “Manliness and the history of Ruskin in love: writing Ruskin’s masculinity from W. G. Collingwood to Kate Millett”. O’Gorman presents a compelling analysis of the creation of a myth of gender. He demonstrates how Collingwood’s determination to present Ruskin in paint and words as the archetype of “literary manliness” began a “process of aggressive masculinization” ( 10– 11) which distorted the truth and led inexorably to Ruskin’s strange central positioning for the later attacks of the Women’s Movement. From the start, the “real” Ruskin was absent from this portrayal (literally so, as it is likely that he did not sit for Collingwood’s portrait). This assertive image was intended to counteract innuendoes of effeminacy sown by Ruskin’s annulled marriage. … Dinah Birch has previously described Ruskin as “a pioneer in interdisciplinary thinking” for “his argument was always that knowledge connects” (Birch, 1999, p. 2). How apposite, therefore, that these articulate essays broach the old “male” boundaries of academic disciplines.’ Susan Watson, Journal of Gender Studies (2004)
‘Some of the collected essays will appeal to specialists, but most will find their usefulness in the realms of teaching-by teaching their readers why, how, and how problematically Ruskin taught things he consistently and contradictorily “tried throughout his career to convey” and not to convey. It is Ruskin's contradictions, still more than his consistencies, that have kept him alive to those engaged in serially “Rethinking the Western Tradition.”’ Sheila Emerson, Victorian Studies (2005)
4. Blackwell’s Critical Guide to the Victorian Novel (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, reprinted 2003) ISBN 0631227032/0631227040 (hbk/pbk), xix, 344 (including 80,000 words of my own text)
‘[O’Gorman] describes the guide accurately as providing “examples of the significant themes of that criticism, contextualized in an historical narrative, and placed in continuing debates in the field”. While aimed primarily at English students, this book is a testament to the shifts and changes in Victorian literature and would also be a useful companion to any historian of the period…[The Victorian Novel] is set out well and the chapters have headings in the margins making it straightforward for the reader to obtain the relevant information … this will be a useful companion to any English or history course whatever the level of study and will provide a concise and clear critique [relevant] to any Victorian novel’. Languages and Literature
‘O’Gorman functions as more author than editor in this second volume in the “Blackwell Guides to Criticism” series, providing a lucid, readable narrative accessible to the non- specialist. This book differs from collections of critical essays such as those edited by Harold Bloom on specific authors and works because O’Gorman provides excerpts, rather than full essays, and puts them within a narrative, summarizing and critiquing them, pointing out relationships among critical positions, and discussing texts not included [...] O’Gorman does not espouse one particular persuasion but gives a balanced view. In its definition and summary of current critical theories, the book will prove useful to all students of literature, not just those interested in the Victorian period. Highly recommended for all collections.’ M.S. Stephenson, Choice
‘…It is the kind of book you come back to, repeatedly consult, and would find absorbing whether or not you were an academic teacher. It is likely to serve for a long time as a fruitful reminder of how the practice of literary criticism has permanently changed the way we enjoy the old-fashioned narrative pleasures of the Victorian novel.’ Valerie Sanders, The Brown Book 2003
5. The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition, edited with an introduction by Francis O’Gorman and Katherine Turner (Aldershot and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2004) with essays by David Amigoni, Dinah Birch, Simon Dentith, Hilary Fraser, Nick Groom, Elisabeth Jay, Lynda Mugglestone, Francis O’Gorman, Helen Small, Katherine Turner, Carolyn Williams, and with a preface by David Fairer. xvi, 268; 6 illus. ISBN: 0754607186
‘…As well as challenging conventional assumptions about what Victorians read and admired, O’Gorman and Turner seek to offer models for rethinking literary tradition that avoid over- emphasizing self-definition through rejection of and reaction against what has gone before…this collection will be of interest not only to scholars of the Victorians and Augustans, but those with an interest in wider questions of how literary influence, authority and tradition are imagined and contested.’ Paul Vlitos, Times Literary Supplement (2004)
‘...En un mot, un volume stimulant parcequ’il nous oblige a relire et à metre en perspective certains auteurs des deux siècles concernés.’ Annie Escuret, Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens(2004)
‘…The back cover proclaims this volume as of interest not only to students of the two periods, but to readers “concerned with questions of literary influence, periodization, and historiography.” Having read it, this reviewer agrees with that claim, and notes that these are all currently vexed questions in literary studies—especially the second one, periodization, in discussions of curriculum and undergraduate studies. This book’s reconsideration of these questions, particularly of the Bloomian narrative, will provide demanding but profitable complication for anyone reading and teaching British literature.’ Kasee Clifton Laster, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century (2005)
‘...a significant contribution to our understanding of British literary history, one that pays implicit tribute to the fact that literary history as it is practised today was initiated in the eighteenth century and fully institutionalized by the end of the Victorian period.’ William R. McKelvy, Victorians Institute Journal (2005)
‘One of the gems in the collection is Francis O’Gorman's piece on Alexander Pope ... After this feast of very enjoyable essays—as a reviewer, one does appreciate such clarity, diversity and competence—one wishes for a second volume along the same lines, perhaps covering some of the issues and authors that had to go missing from this very successful book.’ Monika Fludernik, Dickens Quarterly, 2006
‘… a forum for a more nuanced examination of the reception history of the earlier period in the nineteenth century, very well realized by the distinguished line-up of contributors here…a wonderfully vibrant collection’ Emma Mason, Victorian Studies, 2007
6. Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), lix, 739pp, 12 illus. ISBN: 0631234357
‘This is an excellent guide to the poetry of the period, and a teaching tool of obvious integrity, offering both help where it is needed and the kind of challenges that are essential to a meaningful learning experience’ Marcus Waithe, Modern Language Review (2006)
7. Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel, ed. Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004 [‘2005’ on title page], reprinted 2005, published as an e-book February 2007) in the Contexts of Literature and Theory series with essays by Kate Flint, James Eli Adams, Angelique Richardson, Cannon Schmitt, Nicholas Dames, Francis O’Gorman, Clare Pettitt, Richard Salmon, John Rignall, Michael Wheeler, Carolyn Dever, and Mark Turner ISBN: 1405103205
‘[T]his book succeeds in presenting a representative selection of historicist critical thinking on a panorama of themes of the novel during the period of what was, arguably, this literary form’s greatest achievement. It will be a stimulating introduction for the advanced undergraduate with an interest in the nineteenth century, and a useful lead for the postgraduate student working in the field of Victorian studies on any one of the numerous taught programmes currently on offer.’ Reference Reviews, 2005
‘... [The book] weaves together important themes in a historical narrative with attention to the different debates and critical positions in the field. This is undoubtedly an important text for students of both literature and history.’ Jyoti Nair Belliappa, The Hindu Times, 4 June 2006
8. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles with ‘The Adventure of the Speckled Band’, ed. Francis O’Gorman (Ontario: Broadview, 2006), 300 pp, illus, ISBN 1551117223.
‘This superb edition outstrips all other editions of a popular classic. Francis O’Gorman’s introduction is impressive, placing the text in the context of numerous literary and cultural debates: about aristocracy, primitivism, biology and criminology, the supernatural, Empire, and spiritualism. His textual annotations offer the most thorough aid to understanding available. The edition’s supplementary materials are varied and offer numerous interpretative possibilities. The remarkable achievement of the edition, however, is the sheer enjoyment of the text it conveys, remembering always that the novel has the status of cultural myth because so many readers have found pleasure in it.’ Juliet John, University of Liverpool (from blurb)
‘Two of the finest Sherlock Holmes chronicles, given in excellent text versions: this alone would invite “first choices” labelling for this book. These two stories are no “mere” thrillers, but fictions in which thrills are convincing because they draw close the natural and the (seeming) supernatural. O’Gorman’s ample, sensible introduction should convince readers that the way from Poe to late Victorian science, atavism, and the decline of the English landed gentry is no far distance. This edition is a credit to Broadview, and that credit will doubtless have testimony through a long shelf life for the book.’ Benjamin Franklin Fisher, University of Mississippi (from blurb)
9. Victorian Literature and Finance, ed. with an Introduction by Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN-10: 0-19-928192-0/ISBN-13: 978-0-19-928192-3)—essays by Gordon Bigelow, Alison Chapman, Josephine Guy, Nancy Henry, Tara McGann, Jane Moody, Francis O’Gorman, Catherine Seville, and Nicholas Shrimpton.
‘Victorian Literature and Finance offers a rich sampling of new work in this vitally important area of Victorian Studies’ Daniel Bivona, Review of English Studies, 2008
‘Victorian Literature and Finance is an outstanding addition to “the new economic criticism,” complementing other recent studies such as Regenia Gagnier’sThe Insatiability of Human Wants, Catherine Gallagher’s The Body Economic, and Mary Poovey’sGenres of the Credit Economy.’ Patrick Brantlinger, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, 2009
‘stimulating and informative ... [The volume’s] argument is that Victorian literature featured “more imaginatively profitable transactions between literature and the domains of high finance, the complex world of advanced capitalism, than have customarily been allowed” (9). Victorian Literature and Finance achieves these goals by bringing together a rich selection of essays that expand and complicate our sense of the diversity of Victorian experiences and representations of capitalism. The wide range of genres that the authors examine is the source of much of this richness. With nine essays on drama, poetry, romances, adventure tales, and political economic theory, as well as realist novels, literary critics and historians of the period will discover new materials to engage with and stimulating readings of familiar and less familiar works.’ Aeron Hunt, Journal of Victorian Culture,June 2011
10. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture, ed. Francis O’Gorman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) with essays by Elizabeth Prettejohn, Ruth A. Solie, Katherine Newey, Matthew Rubery, Nicola Humble, Anna Maria Jones, Nicholas Daly, Bernard V. Lightman, Timothy Alborn, Edward S. Spiers, Dennis Denisoff, John Strachan, Francis O’Gorman, and Samantha Matthews with an introduction by Francis O’Gorman—ISBN 978-0-521-88699-4/978-0-521-71506-5; xv, 1-309pp, illus.
11. Anthony Trollope, The Duke’s Children, edited with an Introduction and Notes by Katherine Mullin and Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)—part of a new complete edition of the Palliser novels. Our ‘Biographical Preface’ and ‘Chronology’ is used in all the new Pallisers.
12. John Ruskin, Praeterita, edited with an Introduction and Notes by Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), i-xxxvii; 435pp (40,000 words of editorial material).
a valuable addition to Ruskin studies ... Francis O’Gorman is a sensitive, intelligent and eloquent guide to Praeterita... detailed and helpful endnotes. - The Companion
The editing and annotation are exemplary - Jan Marsh, Times Literary Supplement
Thanks to O’Gorman, the experience of reading Praeterita has achieved luminous transparency, and it is to be hoped that his new, very finely edited edition finds its way on to book shelves and into syllabuses ... O’Gorman’s introduction deserves special praise ... The explanatory notes provide essential guidance and clarification, especially for the neophyte reader of Ruskin. - Carlyle Studies Annual
13. Margaret Oliphant, The Makers of Venice: Doges, Conquerors and Men of Letters (1887) edited and introduced complete text for volume 9, set 2, of The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, General Editors Elisabeth Jay and Joanne Shattock (London: Pickering &Chatto, 2012), ISBN-13:9781851966080, xxii, 355, illus.
14. Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia’s Lovers, edited with an Introduction and Notes by Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
15. Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage, edited with an Introduction and Notes by Katherine Mullin and Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)—part of a new complete edition of the Barsetshire novels. Our ‘Biographical Preface’ and ‘Chronology’ is used in all the new texts.
16. Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015), pbk. Sept.2016.
See reviews at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/worrying-9781441143600/#sthash.mAlSRVyI.dpuf
17. The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin, ed. by Francis O’Gorman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
18. Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now, edited with an Introduction and Notes by Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Others forthcoming
19. Algernon Charles Swinburne, ed. by Francis O’Gorman in 21st -Century Oxford Authors series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 10 November2016)—awaiting second proofs
20. Edward Thomas ‘Literary Criticism’: Algernon Charles Swinburne: A Critical Study (1912) and Walter Pater: A Critical Study (1913) and related material, ed. by Francis O’Gorman, as vol. 5 of Edward Thomas Selected Prose Writings, General Editors Guy Cuthbertson and Lucy Newlyn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)—awaiting proofs
21. John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, a scholarly edition by Francis O’Gorman for Oxford English Texts (Oxford: Clarendon, forthcoming)—under contract.
22. Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia (New York: Bloomsbury, 2017)—completing revisions for final submission.
23. What I might have been—in discussion with Reaktion.
24. Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm, ed. with an Introduction and Notes by Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)—contracted.
Journal Special Editions
Women’s Writing: Margaret Oliphant Special Edition, 6.2 (1999), ed. by Elisabeth Jay and Francis O’Gorman with essays by Penny Fielding, Ann Heilmann, Elisabeth Jay, Shirley Jones, Linda Peterson, Clare Pettitt, Valerie Sanders, and Sandra Spencer.
Worldviews: Environment, Religion, Culture. Special Edition: Writing, Landscape and Community, 5.1 (April 2001) ed. by Francis O’Gorman, with essays by Clare Morgan, Francis O’Gorman, Shaun Richards, Marion Thain, and John Whale.
Consultant Editor
Consultant Editor: The Cyder Press, University of Gloucestershire, 1999-2009 [4 vols. per year]
Advisory Editor
Advisory Editor (Victorian Poetry): Oxford Companion to English Literature, 7th edition, ed. by Dinah Birch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)—edited, lightly or heavily revised, or wrote all entries on Victorian poetry in this edition.
Periodical Editor
The Companion: The Newsletter of The Guild of St George, 2004-6 [Volume 1.4-6][there is no reference below to my own articles and annual co-written bibliography in this newsletter]
Editorial Boards
Worldviews: Environment, Religion, Culture, 2000- Victorian Review (Canada), 2007-12 Journal of Victorian Culture, 2006- Ruskin Research Bulletin, 2011-
Parts of books
‘“The Eagle and the Whale”? John Ruskin’s Argument with John Tyndall’ in Michael Wheeler, ed., Time and Tide: Ruskin Studies - Ruskin and Science (London: Pilkington, 1996), 45-64.
‘Ruskin’s Science of the 1870s: Science, Education, and the Nation’ in Dinah Birch, ed., Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern (Oxford: Clarendon, 1999), 35-55.
‘Memoirs of a Fox Hunting, Stag Hunting, Otter Hunting, Wild Fowl Hunting ... Man: Masculinity and the Subjectivity of the Victorian Hunter’ in Martin Hewitt, ed., Representing Victorian Lives (Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, vol. 2, 1999), 27-38 (volume of conference papers).
‘“More interesting than all the books, save one”: Charles Kingsley’s Construction of Natural History’ in Juliet John and Alice Jenkins, eds, Rethinking Victorian Culture (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999), 147-161.
‘The Mightiest Evangel of the Alpine Club: Masculinity and Agnosticism in the Alpine Writing of John Tyndall’ in Sean Gill, Andrew Bradstock, Anne Hogan, and Sue Morgan, eds, Masculinity, Spirituality and Victorian Culture (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), 141-160.
‘Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite Imagination in the 1870s: Art, Politics and the Female Body’ in Robert Hewison, ed., Ruskin’s Artists: Studies in the Victorian Visual Economy (Aldershot and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2000), 185-203.
(= with Dinah Birch), ‘Introduction’ to Dinah Birch and Francis O’Gorman, eds, Ruskin and Gender (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), 1-9.
‘Manliness and the History of Ruskin in Love: Writing Ruskin’s Masculinity from W.G. Collingwood to Kate Millett’ in Dinah Birch and Francis O’Gorman, eds, Ruskin and Gender (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002), 10-28.
(= with Clare Palmer), ‘Animals, Power, and Ethics: The Case of Fox Hunting’ in Andrew Light and Avner de-Shalit, eds, Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (Massachusetts: MIT, 2002), 281- 94.
‘Ruskin, and Writing History from Home’ in John Ruskin: Werk und Wirkung, ed. Werner Oechslin (gtaVerlag, Zürich and Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin, 2003), 131-46.
‘“Amiable but determined autocracy”: Margaret Oliphant, Venice, and the Inheritance of Ruskin’ in Alison Chapman and Jane Stabler, eds, Unfolding the South: Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers and Artists in Italy (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), 183-200.
‘“The clue of Shakespearian power over me”: Ruskin, Shakespeare, and Influence’ in Gail Marshall and Adrian Poole, eds, Victorian Shakespeare: Literature and Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 203-18.
(=with Katherine Turner), ‘Introduction’ to Francis O’Gorman and Katherine Turner, eds, The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition (Aldershot and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2004), 1-13.
‘The “high priest of an age of prose and reason”? Alexander Pope and the Victorians’ in Francis O’Gorman and Katherine Turner, eds, The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century: Reassessing the Tradition (Aldershot and Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2004), 76-97.
‘Romance and Victorian Autobiography: Margaret Oliphant, Edmund Gosse and John Ruskin’s “needle to the north”’ in Blackwell’s Companion to Romance, ed. Corinne Saunders (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004), 360-74.
‘Chronology’ and ‘Introduction’ to Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel, ed. Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005 [published 2004]), Contexts of Literature and Theory series, xiv-xxiii; 1-3.
‘“A long deep sob of that mysterious wondrous happiness that is one with pain”: Emotion in Victorian Fiction’ in Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel, ed. Francis O’Gorman (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005 [published 2004]), Contexts of Literature and Theory series, 253-70.
‘Introduction’ and ‘Speculative Fictions and the Fortunes of H. Rider Haggard’ in Francis O’Gorman, ed., Victorian Literature and Finance(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 1-16, 157-72.
‘Ruskin’s Mountain Gloom’ in Keith Hanley and Rachel Dickinson, eds, Ruskin and the Struggle for Coherence (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), 123-50.
‘Victorian Literature and Bringing the Body Back from the Dead’ in Ulrike Maude, Jane Macnaughton, and Corinne Saunders, eds., The Body and the Arts (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 102-15.
‘Salley Vickers, Venice, and the Victorians’ in Patricia Pulham and Rosario Arias, eds, Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Repossessing the Past (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 3-22.
‘The Dead’ in Francis O’Gorman, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 255-72.
‘Later Victorian Voices 2: Davidson, Kipling, Michael Field, Kendall, Lee-Hamilton, Webster’ in Michael O’Neill, ed., The Cambridge History of English Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 706-24.
‘Financial Markets and the Banking System’ in Dickens in Context, ed. by Sally Ledger† and Holly Furneaux (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 276-83.
‘The Rural Scene: Victorian Literature and the Natural World’ in Kate Flint, ed., The New Cambridge History of English Literature: The Victorian Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 532-49.
‘Romance and Realism’ in Robert L. Caserio and Clement Hawes, eds., The Cambridge History of the English Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 485-99.
‘Did Ruskin Support the Pre-Raphaelites?’ in Keith Hanley and Brian Maidment, eds., Persistent Ruskin: Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect (Burlington VT and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013), 81-92.
‘Hardy and Realism’ in Philip Mallett, ed., Thomas Hardy in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 113-21.
‘On Not Hearing: Victorian Poetry and Music’ in Matthew Bevis, ed., The Oxford Handbook to Victorian Poetry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), 745-61.
‘Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son, Modernism, and a History of Nerves’ in Maria DiBattista and Emily Wittman, eds, Modernism and Autobiography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 3-17.
‘Religion’ in Francis O’Gorman, ed., The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 144-56.
‘Periodization’ in Emma Mason and Jonathan Herapath, eds., Nineteenth-Century Poetry: Criticism and Debates (London: Routledge, 2016), 9-16.
Forthcoming book chapters
‘Nineteenth-century Poetry and Music’ in Delia da Sousa Correa, ed., The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016)—awaiting proofs.
‘Keats’ Critical Reception, 1821-1900’ in Michael O’Neill, ed., John Keats in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)—awaiting proofs.
‘Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1875), and the Meaning of Montagu Square’ in The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope, eds. Frederik Van Dam, David Skilton, and Ortwin de Graef (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018)—awaiting proofs
‘Blasphemy and the Bible’, The Bible and Literature: The Victorian Period, ed. Elisabeth Jay (London: Bloomsbury, 2018)
Articles
‘A Blakean Allusion in Ruskin’s Fors Clavigera’, Notes & Queries, 42 (1995): 175-6.
‘Sage and City: John Ruskin and Manchester’, Manchester Memoirs: The Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 135 (1996): 55-70.
‘Ruskin’s Fors Clavigera of October 1873: An Unpublished Letter from Carlyle to Tyndall’, Notes & Queries, 43 (1996): 430-2.
‘A Source for “The Bailey Beareth the Bell Away”’, Notes & Queries, 44 (1997): 242.
‘John Tyndall as Poet: Agnosticism and “A Morning on Alp Lusgen”’, Review of English Studies, 48 (1997): 353-8.
‘Ruskin and the Aclands: Further Letters’, Bodleian Library Record, 16 (1997): 181-8.
‘Some Ruskin Annotations of Tyndall’, Notes & Queries, 44 (1997): 348-9.
‘Ruskin, Wilde, and Lillie Langtry’, Notes & Queries, 44 (1997): 349-50.
‘Ruskin v. Whistler: A Further Manuscript, Notes & Queries, 44 (1997): 346.
‘Ruskin, Faunthorpe and the Index to Fors Clavigera’, English Language Notes, 35 (1998): 52-8.
‘Browning’s “Inapprehensiveness”’, The English Review, 8 (1998): 37-9.
‘Browning’s Manuscript Revisions to Michael Field’s Long Ago (1889)’, Browning Society Notes, 25 (1998): 38-44.
‘Victorian Natural History and the Discourses of Nature in Charles Kingsley’s Glaucus’, Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, 2 (1998): 21-35.
‘Milton’s Paradise Lost 10.937’, The Explicator, 57 (1998): 23-4.
‘Ruskin and Walter Lucas Brown: Two New Letters’, Notes & Queries, 46 (1999): 57-60.
‘Ruskin’s Art of England, Dante, and Aeschylus’, Notes & Queries, 46 (1999): 479-80.
‘“Suppose it were your own father of whom you spoke”: Ruskin’s Unto this Last (1860)’, Review of English Studies, 51 (2000): 230-47.
‘Knights of Passion: Tennyson and Adultery’, The English Review, 10 (2000): 34-7.
‘Frost’s “Never again would birds’ song be the same”’, The Explicator, 58 (2000): 94-5.
‘Ruskin and Particularity: ForsClavigera and the 1870s’, Philological Quarterly, 79 (2000): 119-36.
‘“Accept things as they are”: Reading the Agnostic Poetry of Henrietta Huxley’, Modern Believing, 42 (2001): 39-48.
‘Reading Asolando: The Reception of Browning’s Last Work’, Browning Society Notes, 28 (2001): 12-22.
‘“I am often thinking of you”: Ruskin, Brantwood, and Kate Raven’, Notes & Queries, 48 (2001): 145-9.
‘Introduction’, Worldviews: Environment, Religion, Culture. Special Edition: Writing, Landscape, and Community, 5 (2001): 1-4.
‘Ruskin’s Memorial Landscapes’, Worldviews: Environment, Religion, Culture. Special Edition: Writing, Landscape, and Community, 5 (2001): 20-34.
‘An Unnoticed Version of A. H. Clough’s “‘Χρυσέα κλης έπι γλώσσα”’, Notes & Queries, 49 (2002): 68-9.
‘George Eliot’s Middlemarch’, The Explicator, 60.3 (2002): 137-8.
‘Ruskin, Vernon Lee, and the Cultural Possession of Italy’, Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies, 7 (2002): 81-107.
‘The Politics of Love in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese’, The English Review, 13 (2003): 28-30.
‘“To see the finger of God in the dimensions of the pyramid”: A New Context for Ruskin’s The Ethics of the Dust (1866)’, Modern Language Review, 98 (2003): 563-73.
‘Matthew Arnold’s “Rugby Chapel” and Thomas Arnold’s Travel Journals’, English Language Notes, 40 (2003): 61-73.
‘“Death lies dead:” The Allusive Texture of Swinburne’s “A Forsaken Garden”’, Victorian Poetry, 41 (2003): 348-52.
(with Katherine Turner) ‘Crossing hands across the gulf: The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century’ Blackwell Compass: Literature, 1 (2004) available on http://wip.literature- compass.com/victorian/view_LICO_027.asp.
‘Tennyson’s “In Memoriam” and tangle’, ANQ: American Notes & Queries, 17.2 (2004): 41-2.
‘Ruskin’s Aesthetic of Failure in The Stones of Venice’, The Review of English Studies, 55 (2004): 374-91.
‘Dickens’s Reading of Ruskin’, Notes & Queries, 51 (2004): 160.
‘Swinburne’s Returns: The Endurance of Writing in Poems and Ballads, Second Series (1878)’, The Cambridge Quarterly, 33 (2004): 197-216.
‘“Blush, sad soul, what harmonies are these!” The Organ in Nineteenth-century English Literature’, Yearbook of the Royal College of Organists (2003-2004): 66-73. [Originally delivered as the Royal College of Organists’ Annual Lecture at the Oundle International Festival, July 2003].
‘Tennyson’s “The Lotos-Eaters” and the Politics of the 1830s’, Victorian Review, 30.1 (2004): 1-20.
‘Ruskin, Venice, and the Endurance of Authorship’, Nineteenth Century Studies, 19 (2005): 83-97.
‘Partly autonomous? Literary-historical Reflections on Richard Price, British Society, 1680-1880’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 11.1 (2006): 160-7.
‘“Fabulous and illusive”: Giorgione and Henry James’s The Aspern Papers (1888)’, The Henry James Review, 27.2. (2006):175-87.
‘Clough’s Difficulties’, Yearbook of English Studies, 36.2 (2006): 128-41. (Reprinted in Poetry Criticism, Cengage Learning, 2009).
‘Oscar Wilde and Pope’, Notes & Queries, 53 (2006): 341-2.
‘Dickens and Yeats’ “The Municipal Gallery Revisited”’, Notes & Queries, 53 (2006): 355-6.
‘Michael Field and Sapphic Fame: “My dark-leaved laurels will endure”’, Victorian Literature and Culture, 34 (2006): 649-61.
‘Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and the Victorian Media’, Linguae&: Revista id lingue e culture moderne: Sherlock Holmes e iliallo inglese (2006): 53-60.
‘Robert Browning’s Men and Women (1855) and the Idea of Posterity’, Studies in Browning and His Circle, 27 (2006): 75-90.
‘Browning, Grief, and the Strangeness of Dramatic Poetry’, The Cambridge Quarterly, 36.2 (2007): 155-73.
‘Where next in Victorian Literary Studies?’, four refereed essays by David Amigoni, John Bowen, Valerie Sanders, and Joanne Shattock, edited with an Introduction by Francis O’Gorman, Literature Compass, Volume 4 Virtual Issue, 1277-1279, 2007.
‘Ruskin and Fame’, Nineteenth-Century Prose, 35 (2008): 94-112.
‘Matthew Arnold’s “The Buried Life”’, ANQ: American Notes & Queries, 21 (2008): 42-4.
Roundtable on ‘Victorian “Afterlives”’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 13.2 (2008), with essays by Carol Christ, Tracy Hargreaves, Peter McDonald, and Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, and an Introduction by Francis O’Gorman, 277-309
‘Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight”, and Anticipating the Future’, Romanticism, 14 (2008): 232-44.
‘Wordsworth and Touch’, English: The Journal of the English Association, 58(2009): 1-20.
‘Poetry in the Age of New Sound Technology: from Mallarmé to Tennyson’ in Cahiers victoriens & éduoardiens, 69 (2009): 41-58.
‘Gerard Manley Hopkins and George MacDonald on Immortality’, Notes & Queries, 56 (2009): 399-400.
‘Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night” and “Parting at Morning” and Goethe’, The Journal of Browning Studies, I (2010): 84-6.
‘Ruskin, Science, and the Miracles of Life’, Review of English Studies, 61 (2010): 276-88.
‘What is Haunting Tennyson’s Maud (1855)?’, Victorian Poetry, 48 (2010): 293-311.
Review essay: ‘Robert Hewison, Ruskin on Venice: The Paradise of Cities (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 26 (2010): 187-97 (contains original material discussing Ruskin and Venice).
‘Coleridge, Keats, and the Science of Breathing’, Essays in Criticism, 61 (2011): 365-81.
‘Margaret Oliphant and The Cornhill in 1889’, Notes & Queries, 58 (2011): 567-8.
‘Walter Pater and Oscar Browning: The “Last” Meeting’, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 20 (2011): 72- 6 (illustrated with my own photograph).
‘What is Haunting Dubliners?’, James Joyce Quarterly, 48.3 (2011): 445-56 (published Nov. 2012).
‘Larkin Hearing’, Literary Imagination, 14 (2012): 35-45.
‘Remembering Edward Thomas’, Agenda, 2012 (supplementary essays of greater length than those in hard copy) http://www.agendapoetry.co.uk/supplements-essays.php.
‘Matthew Arnold and Rereading’, The Cambridge Quarterly, 41 (2012): 245-61.
‘Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers and the Scandal in Trollope’s The Warden’, Notes & Queries, 59 (2012): 336-9.
‘Swinburne and Ireland’, Review of English Studies, 64 (2013): 454-74. ‘Editor’s Choice 2013’
‘Modernism, T.S. Eliot, and the “Age of Worry”’, Textual Practice, 26 (2012): 1001-19.
‘Hopkins’ Yonder’, Literature and Theology, 27 (2013): 81-97.
‘Swinburne and Mary Gordon’, Notes & Queries, 60 (2013): 263-5.
‘The Touching Distances of Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach’, Agenda, 47 (2013): 122-9.
‘“Influence” in the Contemporary Study of the Humanities: The Problem of Ruskin’, Carlyle Studies Annual, 28 (2013): 5-29.
‘Swinburne and the “unutterable sadness” of Philip Bourke Marston’, Literary Imagination, 15 (2013): 165- 80.
‘Thomas Hardy and the Bishop of Wakefield’, Notes & Queries, 61(2014): 86-9.
‘John Ruskin and Contemporary Economics’, Ruskin Review and Bulletin, 10 (2014): 4-10.
‘Swinburne and Tennyson’s Peerage’, English Studies, 96 (2015):277-92.
‘Lionel Johnson and Charing Cross’, The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 24 (2015): 78-96 (illustrated with my photograph).
‘Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach,” and the Channel Railway’, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, 28 (2015), 177-81.
‘Matthew Arnold and the SS Lusitania’, Notes & Queries, 63 (2016): 271-4.
‘Is Trollope’s The Way We Live Now (1875) about the “commercial profligacy of the age”?’, Review of English Studies, advanced archive.
Forthcoming articles
‘Ruskin and Forgetting’ (2015 Mikimoto Memorial Lecture), forthcoming in Ruskin Research Bulletin, September 2016.
‘Swinburne in Difficulty’ forthcoming in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, vol.57:4 (Fall 2017).
Reference articles
‘Emily Davies’, ‘Harriet Martineau: Illustrations of Political Economy’, ‘Harriet Martineau: Deerbrook’, ‘L. S. Bevington’, ‘Emilia Dilke’, ‘J. H. Ewing’, ‘Margaret Gatty’, ‘Emily Pfeiffer’, ‘Lady Charlotte Elliot’, ‘Frances Havergal’, ‘Henrietta Huxley’, and ‘Patricia Beer’ entries in Lorna Sage, ed., The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Entry on ‘Charles Robert Darwin’ for The Literary Encyclopaedia.Com (2002).
‘Editorial Introduction’ to Gaskell and the Brontës: Literary Manuscripts of Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) and the Brontës from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds (Marlborough: Adam Matthews microfilm publications, 2003), 9-16. ISBN 185711 238.
Entries on ‘Walter Pater’, ‘W. G. Collingwood’, ‘James Fergusson’, ‘Owen Jones’, ‘J. A. Symonds Snr’, ‘A. W. N. Pugin’, and ‘Gilbert Scott’ in Thoemmes Dictionary of 19th-Century British Philosophers (London: Thoemmes, 2002) [8,000 words].
‘Algernon C. Swinburne’ in GaëtanBrulotte and John Phillips, eds, Encyclopaedia of Erotic Literature, 2 vols (London: Routledge, 2006), II,1268-70.
‘John Ruskin’ in J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, eds., Encyclopaedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, 2 vols (Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson Gale, 2008), ii.3
Academic-related Blogs
‘Dickens’ Pessimism’ for Cambridge University Press’s ‘Dickens 200’, March 2012: http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2012/03/dickens-pessimism/.
‘Ruskin: The Autobiographer Without an Audience?’, Oxford University Press, 21 May 2012: http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/ruskin-praeterita-autobiography-audience/.
Professional writing and activity
Since 2007, discussions involving English literature have appeared in The Guardian, The Yorkshire Post, The Dalesman, Cumbria, and on the BBC news website (e.g., http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bradford/ 8196844.stm). Some of my ideas about fiction and finance were discussed in The Financial Times 23 March 2012 (‘Literary Festivals that Profit from the Financial Crisis’). I was interviewed about the Brontës on BBC Radio York in August 2009 and live about Michael Gove’s plans for School literature on Radio 4’s Today on 6 October 2010. I was interviewed live about Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Droodon 10 January 2012 on BBC Radio Leeds and about ghost stories live for BBC Radio Leeds in July 2012. I was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’, on Tess of the d’Urbervilles on 5 May 2016. Contributions to the discussion on A New Level was filmed and is on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=AdYL76Rgk4E).
‘Victorianists and the Politics of Interdisciplinarity in the Academy’, Victorian Review, 33:1 (2007): 44-7.
‘A-level examination papers in English Literature 1951-2008’, part of A New Level (2009), for the independent think-tank Reform, 10-12.
The Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ article on REF and Impact: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/19/research-excellence-framework-academic (19 December 2009).
‘Making Meaning: Literary Research in the Twenty-first Century’ in Jonathan Bate, ed., The Long View: The Value of the Humanities (London: Bloomsbury/AHRC, 2010), 272-82.
Journal of Victorian Culture online: http://myblogs.informa.com/jvc/2013/04/22/the-humanities-the- victorians-and-impact/, April 2013.
‘The “Value” in the “Public Value of the Humanities”: A UK Perspective’ in Jane Conroy and Margaret Kelleher, ed., Restating the Value of the Humanities (Dublin: Humanities Serving Irish Society Consortium, 2014), 12-14.
WORRYING
For Worrying, I was interviewed live on:
i. Moncrieff Show for Ireland’s Newstalk on 23 June 2015 ii. BBC Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’ with Matthew Sweet on 30 June 2015 iii. Australia’s Late Night Review with Philip Adams, 30 July 2015 iv. BBC Radio Wales, Lynn Boyle show, 9 August 2015 v. BBC Radio York (Jules Bellerby), 8 June 2016
And recorded an interview with Mona Marsi for Sweden’s Number 1 radio show on culture and ideas, OBS i P1, which was broadcast on Wednesday 4 November 2015 at 14:00.
The book inspired a week of Radio 3’s The Essay on ‘A Reflection on Worrying’, with 5x15 minute programmes involving Steve Punt, Tom McKinney, Emma Griffin, Emma Jane Unsworth, and myself, 20-24 June 2016. My programme, on ‘The Rituals of Worry’, was broadcast on Tuesday 21 June 2016.
The following print articles were follow-on commissions:
i. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/francis-oagorman/the-rituals-of-worry_b_7347148.html. ii. ‘How academe breeds anxiety’, May 2015 in The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/article/How-Academe-Breeds- Anxiety/231441/?key=HG52JgFuM3ZANy1nZm5EYjlSaXNlYUwhNXpHPyhzblBXFQ== iii. ‘Worrying is good for you’, The Daily Mail, Saturday 25 July 2015: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3174042/Worrying-GOOD-Professor-says-anxiety- sleepless-nights-brain-s-way-planning-ahead.html iv. ‘How We Became a World of Worriers’, Irish Times, http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/how-we-became-a-world-of-worriers-1.2307764, July 2015. v. Matthew Reisz (discussing Worrying), ‘Historians make emotional journals in to the past’, Times Higher Education, 24 December 2015 ‘https://www.timeshighereducation.com/humanities/historians-make-emotional-journeys-past.