The Return of the 90s
edited by Madeline Lane-McKinley (writer, editor and cultural critic) and Sean O’Brien (Lecturer in the Department of English at Bristol) forthcoming in June 2026
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The Return of the 90s
edited by Madeline Lane-McKinley (writer, editor and cultural critic) and Sean O’Brien (Lecturer in the Department of English at Bristol) forthcoming in June 2026
Edward Thomas's Prose
Edward Thomas's Prose: Truth, Mystery, and the Natural World by Ralph Pite
Landline
a new poetry collection by William Wootten, Senior Lecturer in Poetry and Creative Writing at the University of Bristol
These Bodies Ain't Broken: A Horror Anthology
edited by Madeline Dyer
Phantoms of Kernow: Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall
edited by Joan Passey
Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century
by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy
by Laurence Publicover
Walter Pater and Persons
by Stephen Cheeke
The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought
by Philip Smallwood
Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives
by Emma Parker
Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century
by Theophilus Savvas
Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793–1845
by Erin Forbes
Grief's Alphabet
by Carrie Etter
Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction
edited by Joan Passey (Bristol) and Robert Lloyd (Cardiff)
Local Place And The Arthurian Tradition In England And Wales, 1400-1700
by Mary Bateman
Hannah More in Context
edited by Kerri Andrews and Sue Edney (the latter is a member of the Bristol English Department)
Dead Drunk: Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks
edited by Pam Lock
The Muriel Rukeyser Era
edited by Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
Late Light
by Michael Malay
Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913
by Joan Passey
The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London
by Shannon McSheffrey and Ad Putter
A Flat Place
by Noreen Masud
Salman Rushdie in Context
edited by Florian Stadtler
The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
edited by Andrew Bennett
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (6th Edition)
by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle
British culture after empire: Race, decolonisation and migration since 1945
edited by Josh Doble, Liam Liburd and Emma Parker
Stevie Smith and the Aphorism: Hard Language
by Noreen Masud
African Literatures as World Literature
edited by Alexander Fyfe and Madhu Krishnan
Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
by Pippa Marland
Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre
edited by Sue Edney and Tess Somervell
Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form
by Doug Battersby
The Poems of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book
edited by John Woolford, Danny Karlin and Joseph Phelan
Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century: The Father of English Poetry
by David Hopkins and Tom Mason
Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles
Edited by Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham (formerly of the University of Bristol) and Joan Passey (currently of the University of Bristol)
an/other pastoral
by Tjawangwa Dema
Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2020
by Will Abberley, Christina Alt, David Higgins, Graham Huggan and Pippa Marland
Unfinished Spirit: Muriel Rukeyser's Twentieth Century
by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
Hannah More in Context
edited by Kerri Andrews and Sue Edney
Speed and Flight in Shakespeare
by Matthew Steggle
Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, Writing and Performing at Sea
edited by Susann Liebich and Laurence Publicover
Thomas Hardy: Selected Writings
edited by Ralph Pite
Perception and analogy: Poetry, science and religion in the eighteenth century
by Rosalind Powell
Middle English Biblical Poetry: Romance, Audience and Tradition
by Cathy Hume
After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction
by Christopher K. Coffman and Theophilus Savvas
Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land's End
edited by Joan Passey
EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century
EcoGothic gardens in the long nineteenth century: Phantoms, fantasy and uncanny flowers
Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture
By Samantha Matthews
Poetry and the Dictionary
Edited by Andrew Blades and Piers Pennington
Biofictions: Race, Genetics and the Contemporary Novel
By Josie Gill
Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone / Francophone Novel
By Madhu Krishnan