Bradshaw, Professor David

Job Title: Professor of English Literature, CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow
College: Worcester
Period/ Subject: 19th - 21st Century

Email address: david.bradshaw@ell.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Building on the interests and expertise I’ve developed over many years, my research for the foreseeable future will continue to centre on contextual interpretations of Modernist literature and culture. I shall carry on editing the works of Virginia Woolf and seek fresh readings of her writings through textual scholarship and archival enquiry. More broadly, I am interested in issues of obscenity and censorship in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature, and I will continue to explore the inter-relationship between eugenics and Modernism. In addition, I am keen to investigate connections between literary discourse and every shade of politics in the broad period 1850-1960 and in pre-World War II theories of education and progress, as well as Modernist constructions of the reader and inter-war dystopias. Current projects include: scholarly editions of Woolf’s Jacob’s Room (CUP and OUP) and The Waves (OUP); chapters entitled `The Sanitary Inspection of Literature: James Douglas and Degenerate Fiction’ and `The Great Purge and its Aftermath, 1945-1958’, in David Bradshaw and Rachel Potter, eds. Prudes on the Prowl: Fiction and Obscenity in England, 1850-the Present Day (OUP, 2013); and articles on `“The Italian Lord Haw-Haw”: Ezra Pound and James Strachey Barnes’ (with James Smith) and `Jane Harrison, Diffusionism and The Waves'. Projects down the line include an essay on the material culture of `The Dead’ and another on connections between Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy and Modernism. As well as being Co-Executive Editor of the 42-volume OUP Edition of The Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh I will be editing Waugh’s Remote People and Waugh in Abyssinia as part of that edition. I also have two monographs in train, one provisionally entitled Virginia Woolf and the Fabric of England and the other will be called something like Aldous Huxley, `Brave New World’ and the Progressive Turn of Mind, 1918-1937.

NB Between 2010 and 2013 I am Chair of the English Faculty Board [Head of Department] and then on sabbatical leave until January 2015, so I am not available to supervise doctoral students until 2015 at the earliest. 

Teaching Areas: 

English Literature 1832-the present day, especially the broad period c.1850-1960.

Selected Publications:

Editions:

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf (Oxford and Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). With Stuart N. Clarke.

Virginia Woolf, The Years, Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf (Oxford and Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).With Ian Blyth.

Virginia Woolf, Selected Essays 'Oxford’s World’s Classics’ series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Pp. xl + 244.

The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). Pp.287.

Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse `Oxford’s World’s Classics’ series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). Pp. lxiv + 196.

A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006). Pp. xxii + 594. With Kevin J.H. Dettmar.

Virginia Woolf, Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches (London: Hesperus, 2003). Pp. xxix + 58. Incorporated into the 2nd, rev. ed. of A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals of Virginia Woolf, ed. Mitchell A. Leaska (London: Pimlico, 2004).

A Concise Companion to Modernism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003). Pp. xxiv + 280.

Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier `Penguin Classics’ series (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 2002). Pp. xlii + 214.

Virginia Woolf, The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction `Oxford World’s Classics’ series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). Pp. xliv + 110.

Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall `Penguin Classics’ series (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 2002). Pp. xlii + 214.

Aldous Huxley, Now More Than Ever `Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint’ series (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2000). Pp. xxviii + 96. With James Sexton.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway `Oxford’s World’s Classics’ series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Pp. lviii + 186.

D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love `Oxford World’s Classics’ series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998). Pp. xlvi + 516.

Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood, Jacob's Hands (London: Bloomsbury, 1998). Pp. xxxvi + 122.

D.H. Lawrence, The White Peacock `Oxford’s World Classics’ series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Pp. xxxvi + 374.

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World `Flamingo Modern Classics’ series (London: Harper Collins, 1994). Pp. xx + 238. Reissued by Vintage in 2003.

The Hidden Huxley: Contempt and Compassion for the Masses 1920-1936 (London: Faber and Faber, 1994). Pp. xxvi + 256. Published in the USA as Aldous Huxley, Between the Wars: Essays and Letters (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994). Issued as a paperback by Faber and Faber in 1995.

Articles, Essays and Chapters in Books:

`"Oxford Poets": W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot and William Force Stead', Yeats Annual (2012).

`Snags in the Fairway: Reading Heart of Darkness’, in Nicola Allen and David Simmons, eds., Reassessing the Contemporary Canon: From Joseph Conrad to Zadie Smith (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2012).

`Woolf’s London, London’s Woolf’, in Jane Goldman and Bryony Randall, eds. Virginia Woolf in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

`Kipling and War’, in Howard J. Booth, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp.80-94.

`Great Crusader: When the Sunday Express Led the Campaign for Literary Hygiene’, [‘Commentary’ article], Times Literary Supplement, Nos.5655/5656 (19 & 26 August 2011: Summer Double Issue), pp.16-17.

`Politics’, in Jason Harding, ed. T.S. Eliot in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp.265-274.

`“Great Avenues of Civilisation”: The Victoria Embankment and Piccadilly Circus Underground Station in the Novels of Virginia Woolf and Chelsea Embankment in Howards End’’, in Giovanni Cianci, Caroline Patey and Sara Sullam, eds., Transits: The Nomadic Geographies of Anglo-American Modernism (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010), pp.189-210.

Booklet accompanying Aldous Huxley: The Spoken Word (London: British Library Audio CD Publication, 2010).

`“The Purest Ecstasy”: Virginia Woolf and The Sea’, in Lara Feigel and Alexandra Harris, eds., Modernism on Sea: Art and Culture at the British Seaside (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), pp.100-115.

`Howards End’, in David Bradshaw, ed. The Cambridge Companion to E.M. Forster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp.151-72.

`Obscenity and Censorship’, in David Bradshaw and Kevin J.H. Dettmar, eds., A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp.103-112.

`Red Trousers: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and John Hargrave’, Essays in Criticism, 55, No.4 (October 2005), pp.352-73.

`Modern Life: Fiction and Satire’, in Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls, eds., The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp.218-231.

Winking, Buzzing, Carpet-Beating: Reading `Jacob’s Room' (Southport: Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2003). Pp.28.

`A New Virginia Woolf Notebook’, Guardian (Review section) (14 June 2003), p.6.

`Eugenics: “They Should Certainly be Killed”’, in David Bradshaw, ed., A Concise Companion to Modernism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp.34-55.

`Huxley’s “Tinpot Mussolini” and the KKK’s “White Fox”: A New Source for Everard Webley and the Brotherhood of British Freemen in Point Counter Point’, Aldous Huxley Annual, 2 (2002), pp.146-59.

`Virginia Woolf on Vimy Ridge: An Interesting Cancellation in “The Hours”’, Notes and Queries, 247 (December 2002), pp.496-98.

“Vanished, Like Leaves”: The Military, Elegy and Italy in Mrs Dalloway’, Woolf Studies Annual, 8 (2002), pp.107-125.

`Virginia Woolf, Maupassant’s Sur l’eau and The Years’, Notes and Queries, 247 (March 2002), pp.88-91.

`Further Thoughts on Mrs Dalloway’s Hot Wednesday in June 1923’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, No. 8 (September 2001), pp.22-23.

New Perspectives on Auden: Rolf Gardiner, Germany and The Orators’, W.H. Auden Society Newsletter, No. 20 (June 2000), pp.20-28.

`The Socio-Political Vision of the Novels’. in Sue Roe and Susan Sellers, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp.191-208. Rep., slightly rev., in 2nd ed. of the Companion (2010), ed. Susan Sellers, pp.124-141.

`Hyams Place: The Years, the Jews and the British Union of Fascists’, in Maroula Joannou, ed., Women Writers of the 1930s: Gender, Politics and History (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999), pp.179-91.

“History in the Raw”: Searchlights and Anglo-German Rivalry in The Years’, Critical Survey, [Special Issue on `Literature of the 1930s’], 10, No. 3 (September 1998), pp.13-21.

`Those Extraordinary Parakeets: Clive Bell and Mary Hutchinson. Part Two’, Charleston Magazine, 17 (Spring/Summer, 1998), pp.5-11.

`British Writers and Anti-Fascism in the 1930s. Part Two: Under the Hawk’s Wings’, Woolf Studies Annual, 4 (1998), pp.41-66.

`Those Extraordinary Parakeets: Clive Bell and Mary Hutchinson. Part One’, Charleston Magazine, 16 (Autumn/Winter, 1997), pp.5-12.

`Vicious Circles: Hegel, Bosanquet and The Voyage Out’ in Diane F. Gillespie and Leslie K. Hankins, eds., Virginia Woolf and the Arts: Selected Papers from the Sixth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (New York: Pace University Press, 1997), pp.183-91.

`British Writers and Anti-Fascism in the 1930s. Part One: The Bray and Drone of Tortured Voices’, Woolf Studies Annual, 3 (1997), pp.3-27.

`Prufrock’s Muttering Retreats’, English Review, 7, No. 1 (September 1996), pp.6-9.

`The Best of Companions: J.W.N. Sullivan, Aldous Huxley and the New Physics. Part Two’, Review of English Studies, NS 47, No. 187 (August 1996), pp.352-68.

`T.S. Eliot and the Major: Sources of Literary Anti-Semitism in the 1930s’, [‘Commentary’ article], Times Literary Supplement, No. 4866 (5 July 1996), pp.14-16.

`The Best of Companions: J.W.N. Sullivan, Aldous Huxley, and the New Physics. Part One’, Review of English Studies, NS 47, No. 186 (May 1996), pp.88-206.

`The Flight from Gaza: Aldous Huxley’s Involvement with the Peace Pledge Union in the Context of his Overall Intellectual Development’, in Bernfried Nugel, ed., Now More Than Ever: Proceedings of the Aldous Huxley Centenary Conference, Münster 1994, (Frankfurt, London and New York: Peter Lang, 1995), pp.9-27.

`Lonely Royalists: T.S. Eliot and Sir Robert Filmer’, Review of English Studies, NS 46, No. 183 (August 1995), pp.375-9.

`Eleven Reviews by T.S. Eliot, Hitherto Unnoted, from the Times Literary Supplement: A Conspectus’, Notes and Queries, 240 (June 1995), pp.212-15.

`Huxley’s Slump: Planning, Eugenics and the "Ultimate Need" of Stability’, in John Batchelor, ed., The Art of Literary Biography, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), pp.151-71.

`Chroniclers of Folly: Huxley and H.L. Mencken, 1920-36’, in David Bradshaw, ed., The Hidden Huxley: Contempt and Compassion for the Masses 1920-36 (London: Faber and Faber, 1994), pp.1-30.

`Open Conspirators: Huxley and H.G. Wells, 1927-35’, in David Bradshaw, ed., The Hidden Huxley: Contempt and Compassion for the Masses 1920-36 (London: Faber and Faber, 1994), pp.31-43.

`A New Bibliography of Aldous Huxley’s Work and its Reception, 1912-1937’, Bulletin of Bibliography, 51, No. 3 (September 1994), pp.237-55.

`Frederick Rolfe [“Baron Corvo”] (1860-1913)’, in The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons, ed. C.S. Nicholls (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p.566. Rep. in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. H.C.G. Matthews and Brian Harrison, Vol. 47 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), p.608.

`Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)’, in The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons, ed. C.S. Nicholls (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp.507-8.

`The Eugenics Movement in the 1930s and the Emergence of On the Boiler’, in Deirdre Toomey, ed., Yeats and Women [Yeats Annual No. 9: ‘A Special Number’] (London: Macmillan, 1992), pp.189-215.

`John Middleton Murry and the Times Literary Supplement: The Importance and Usage of a Modern Literary Archive’, Bulletin of Bibliography, 48, No. 4 (December 1991), pp.199-212.

`The Poker-faced High Priest of Modern Poetry’, Sunday Times (25 Sept. 1988), p.32.

 Other Information: 

Advisory Board, Oxford University Weinreibe Centre for Life-Writing.

International Association of University Professors of English.

Editorial Board, Literature Compass.

Associate Editor (Modernism), The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 7th edition, ed. Dinah Birch.

Editorial Board, Cambridge University Press Edition of The Works of Virginia Woolf.

Fellow of the English Association.

General Editor, Wiley-Blackwell Concise Companions to Literature and Culture series.

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