English

A discussion of the almost countless roads in Thomas Hardy's fiction, as objects both 'natural' and 'cultural'.

A discussion of Disraeli in Byron's footsteps in the Mediterranean, and the impact of these tours on both men's sense of vocation.

An account of the influence of Romanticism on Australian literature in the nineteenth century.

An account of Montgomery's mini-epic of 1828 in terms of its fascination with coral islands and its imaginative anticipation of evolutionary theory.

A study of Byron's 'pagan attitudes', especially in Don Juan: stoical, materialistic, and relativistic.

A discussion of the creative origins of Shelley's novel, and her guilty presumption at writing it.

A study of the chapter on Galapagos from the Beagle voyage, concentrating on Darwin's habits of investigation and his qualities of blindness and insight.

An interview with the South African novelist (1929-2014), particularly on his literary-critical interests.

A polemic about literature in schools and the Australian public imaginary

A discussion of varieties of 'maturity' in Leavis and Nussbaum

A discussion of the relation between Byron's comic epic and nineteenth-century British fiction

A discussion of mental patterns, specifically relating to figures in loco parentis, in the 1799 'Prelude'

A discussion of the Byronic hero trope as visible in heroines of Victorian Fiction, particularly in Dickens and George Eliot

A discussion of Romantic themes in the insular Pacific, particularly relating to the Anson and HMS Bounty voyages, Wordsworth and Byron

A discussion of Austen's novel in terms of family relations, rites of passage, and the Gothic.

A discussion of Byron's role in nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture.

A monograph about the debatable claims made on imaginative literature by various schools of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and historicism.

A discussion of Byron's neoclassical plays: Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, and The Two Foscari, based on a PhD thesis at University College London, 1989

A critical anthology of Western writing about the insular Pacific, from the Renaissance to contemporary literature.

An introduction to Byron's work for the undergraduate and general reader: biography, context, and survey of major works, including letters and journals.